Warlock

YEE-HAW, IT'S A LITERARY WESTERN Warlock was as fine a book as any to read on vacation in the city in which I grew up. Within this daunting tome are the tensions between good and evil, right and wrong, the law and the lawless. It was appropriate to return to this subject matter in the place in which......more

Agosto de 1880. La canícula y la densa neblina desdibujan los contornos de la ciudad fronteriza de Warlock, un lugar huérfano de ley donde el robo, las reyertas y el crimen están a la orden del día. El puesto de ayudante del sheriff pesa como una maldición sobre quien se atreve a ocuparlo; pocos tien......more

Warlock Magnífica novela sobre el oeste americano durante la década de 1880. Novela que refleja muy bien el antiguo salvaje oeste del que tantas películas hemos visto. Se publicó en 1958 siendo finalista del premio Pulitzer. Warlock es un pueblo minero que está a merced de un grupo de malhechores que......more

Feeling barfy and delirious this past weekend finally gave me the necessary downtime to finish this book—which isn't meant to imply that Warlock is a chore to read, but only that I had developed a sudden distaste for reading itself and preferred to while away my hours watching bad television with my......more

Is not the history of the world no more than a record of violence and death cut in stone? There's a lot to love in Warlock for fans of American westward expansion, gritty Manifest Destiny narratives with well-drawn morally ambiguous characters. At every turn in the story Hall reminds the reader that......more