Scott Graham
Two teen boys plan a rescue of two horses meant for the slaughterhouse owned by a prominant but not upstanding family. With the avaricious and violent family of men and boys on their trail, they undertake an epic trek across a mountain to the eponymous Tom’s Crossing to release the doomed horses into the wild. This is a dense multilayered book with hints of the paranormal, or possibly the third man factor, and a difficult read, requiring constant translation of an antiquated western U.S. english dialect and vernacular into modern english. Running digressions into future artistic renditions of the events of the perilous journey are presented and inconsistencies in the story abound that add color and verisimilitude to a story that is witnessed by only a few but told by many in the finest of oral traditions. The adventure at the core of the book is extremely compelling and even compared within the book itself to the Iliad and The Odyssey. It would make one heck of a lmited series, do you hear me Apple TV+?
Two teen boys plan a rescue of two horses meant for the slaughterhouse owned by a prominant but not upstanding family. With the avaricious and violent family of men and boys on their trail, they undertake an epic trek across a mountain to the eponymous Tom’s Crossing to release the doomed horses into the wild. This is a dense multilayered book with hints of the paranormal, or possibly the third man factor, and a difficult read, requiring constant translation of an antiquated western U.S. english dialect and vernacular into modern english. Running digressions into future artistic renditions of the events of the perilous journey are presented and inconsistencies in the story abound that add color and verisimilitude to a story that is witnessed by only a few but told by many in the finest of oral traditions. The adventure at the core of the book is extremely compelling and even compared within the book itself to the Iliad and The Odyssey. It would make one heck of a lmited series, do you hear me Apple TV+?