The Winter Family

by Clifford Jackman

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Traces decades in the lives of a post-Civil War Oklahoma family that includes such members as a psychopathic killer, a group of cruel brothers, an impassive ex-slave, a dangerous child prodigy and a pathologically deviant patriarch.

After their actions during the Civil War lead to a courtmartial, a group of hardened Union soldiers recasts themselves as outlaws, and find that the disorder of Reconstruction allows for all sort of savage freedom. The psychopathic killer Quentin Ross; the mean and moronic Empire brothers; the impassive ex-slave Fred Johnson; dangerous child prodigy Lukas Shakespeare-- but the malevolent center of this 'family' is their cold, hardened leader, Augustus Winter, a man with an almost pathological resistance to the rules of society and a preternatural gift for butchery.
  • ISBN13 9780385539487
  • Publish Date 14 April 2015 (first published 1 January 2015)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 25 March 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 352
  • Language English