Synopsis
John Gload is a seventy-seven-year-old murderer. He has been killing for over half a century before he is caught for the first time.
Valentine Millimaki is the young man in the Copper County sheriff's department who draws the overnight shift after Gload's arrest. He is tasked with getting the killer to confess to a string of unsolved murders.
Gload and Millimaki sit...
Details
14 August 2014256 pages
9781447247807Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Stunning . . . A remarkable novel . . . it's absolutely beautiful, from its tragic opening scene to its tough, necessary end. Zupan is an unsparing writer, but also a generous, deeply compassionate oneNPR
A dark and imaginative debutNew York Times
Mr. Zupan produces pleasurably lush and baroque prose, especially when describing his setting's awesome and unforgiving topographyWall Street Journal
Passionately arresting . . . Even though Zupan's novel deals with grim topics, he plows the depths of grief and numbness with such a concentrated dedication that the prose is a character in itself. His sentences are unleashed in a furious splendour . . . bleak and brilliant - the best kind of bookMinneapolis Star Tribune
