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Shavetail by Thomas Cobb audiobook

Shavetail

By Thomas Cobb
Read by Tom Stechschulte

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13.01 Hours • Unabridged
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Thomas Cobb's second novel is a "thoughtful Western" (Publishers Weekly) based on the actual events of the Camp Grant massacre. The year is 1871, and a 17-year-old runaway named Ned Thorne has just joined Captain Robert Franklin at the Camp Grant outpost located at the edge of Arizona's Chiricahua mountains. When a nearby farmhouse is raided and a woman kidnapped by renegade Apaches, the men's mettle is severely tested as they confront the brutality of life in the West.

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Thomas Cobb's second novel is a "thoughtful Western" (Publishers Weekly) based on the actual events of the Camp Grant massacre. The year is 1871, and a 17-year-old runaway named Ned Thorne has just joined Captain Robert Franklin at the Camp Grant outpost located at the edge of Arizona's Chiricahua mountains. When a nearby farmhouse is raided and a woman kidnapped by renegade Apaches, the men's mettle is severely tested as they confront the brutality of life in the West.

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Editorial Reviews

“The education to which Thomas Cobb’s eager young soldier is forced to submit combines such wisdom, pain, suspense, and nasty good humor that I simply couldn’t read this book fast enough. Of course I didn’t know what a ‘shavetail’ was when I began, but learning that was only part of the education I was treated to. Guilt and innocence, blood and tenderness—I can’t imagine any reader who could resist.” —Rosellen Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Before and After
“Readers will also find in Cobb’s second novel (after Crazy Heart) nicely wrought coming-of-age elements. Highly recommended.”  —Library Journal 
“Tender and action-packed.”  —Kirkus Reviews
“Shavetail is the story of the futility of war, and is as immediate and brutal as daily news from Iraq or Afghanistan, although the year is 1871 and the place is southern Arizona and northern Mexico. Cobb presents the landscape, the characters, and the conflict with absolute authority, producing a magnificent story in the tradition of Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” —Richard Shelton, author of Going Back to Bisbee

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Author Bio: Thomas Cobb

Author Bio: Thomas Cobb

Thomas Cobb was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Tucson, Arizona. Thinking more important things happened away from the desert he loved as a child, he left for bigger cities like New York and Los Angeles. However, when he finally returned, he saw the landscape anew and it became the setting for his writings. His novel Crazy Heart was turned into a hit movie. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife.

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Available Formats : CD
Runtime: 13.01
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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