Wanderer of the Wasteland, Zane Grey
Wanderer of the Wasteland, Zane Grey
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Wanderer of the Wasteland

Author: Zane Grey

Narrator: Michael Kramer

Unabridged: 16 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 07/21/2020

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

A western adventure becomes a journey of expiation and redemption.Adam flees to the desert to save his life, and discovers the need to save his soul. In the searing heat of Death Valley, lonely land of prospectors and hermits, he confronts his baser instincts as he struggles to survive, striving to rise above them.Wanderer of the Wasteland is Zane Grey’s most personal novel: a thinly veiled autobiography written in remarkably poetic language. Filled with colorful characters, and vibrant descriptions of the southwestern desert landscape he so loved, this is the story of one man’s internal battle to save his better self, or die trying.

About Zane Grey

Zane Grey (January 31, 1872–October 23, 1939), born in Ohio, was practicing dentistry in New York when he and his wife, Lina Roth (Dolly) Grey, published his first novel. Grey presented the West as a moral battleground in which his characters are destroyed because of their inability to change or are redeemed through a final confrontation with their past. The man whose name is synonymous with Westerns made his first trip west in 1907 at age thirty-five. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his bestselling book. More than 130 films have been based on his work.

About Michael Kramer

Michael Kramer is an award-winning narrator (Never Split the Difference, The Wheel of Time) who records at his home studio in Maryland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on August 30, 2014

Zane Grey’s take on Homer’s Odyssey turns up in Wanderer of the Wasteland, the story of a boy named Adam who flees his past and a terrible crime. Adam seeks refuge in the desert, where life is unrelentingly hard and every day brings a battle against the alkali sands, scorching heat, lonely nights, n......more

Goodreads review by Mary on November 11, 2018

Grey is a guaranteed good read. Kind of hard to believe that something written almost 100 years ago is still entertaining and true to human nature. This novel was a bit verbose, it is tedious at times.......more

Goodreads review by Al on December 04, 2023

This is at least the third time I've read this book, which is one of Zane Grey's lesser-known (not to say unknown) works. The simple story is that youthful Adam Larey flees into the Arizona desert after a violent and apparently fatal confrontation with his brother, adopts the name Wansfell, and spen......more

Goodreads review by Laurel on November 07, 2019

This is a book review of Wanderer of the Wasteland, one of famous Zane Grey's lesser-known works. I found this first edition novel written in 1923 in my late mother’s book collection. Since I knew something of Zane Gray’s background from several sources, I wanted to read one of his books. I have bee......more

Quotes

“Wanderer of the Wasteland is a thinly disguised autobiography.” Stephen J. May, author of Zane Grey, Romancing the West

“Michael Kramer has a rough edge to his voice that evokes the Western setting of this Zane Grey audiobook. There’s a romantic quality to his narration that gives the descriptive passages of the landscape more power than they have in print…Listeners can hear his joy at the natural world of Death Valley and later his weariness upon seeing a desert oasis that turns out to be a mirage. Note: The dialogue of Native Americans is stereotyped, and offensive terms appear occasionally.” AudioFile

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