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"To read Carys Davies's West is to encounter a myth, or potent dream—a narrative at once new and timeless." —Claire Messud "Carys Davies is a deft, audacious visionary." —Téa Obreht When widowed mule breeder Cy Bellman reads in the newspaper that colossal ancient bones have been discovered in the salty Kentucky mud, he sets out from his small Pennsylvania farm to see for himself if the rumors are true: that the giant monsters are still alive and roam the uncharted wilderness beyond the Mississippi River. Promising to write and to return in two years, he leaves behind his only daughter, Bess, to the tender mercies of his taciturn sister and heads west. With only a barnyard full of miserable animals and her dead mother's gold ring to call her own, Bess, unprotected and approaching womanhood, fills lonely days tracing her father's route on maps at the subscription library and waiting for his letters to arrive. Bellman,...

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Author

Davies, Carys

Publisher

Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501179358

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (871 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14