Little Wolves
  • Published: 15 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9781616953430
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 348
  • RRP: $35.00
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Little Wolves

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Second novel from Alex Award-winning author of The Night Birds which was a strong Soho seller.

In this haunting blend of myth, reality, and prairie horror, the repercussions of a heinous murder echo through a small Minnesota town.

A modern classic of the Midwest, from Alex Award Winner Thomas Maltman.

“An ambitious mythic thriller that hums with energy and portent.” —Leif Enger, author of Virgil Wander

Southern Minnesota, 1980s. A drought season is pushing family farms to the brink in Lone Mountain when Seth Fallon, a teenage boy, murders the local sheriff and then shoots himself. In the wake of his son’s violent act, his father decides to look for answers. His search leads him to form an unlikely connection to Clara, his son’s teacher, who has recently returned to Lone Mountain for reasons of her own: to learn the truth behind the old myths and dark folklore she was raised on, which she suspects hold a devastating truth about her past, as well as the town itself. 

Little Wolves is a penetrating look at small-town America from the award-winning author of The Night Birds as well as a powerful murder mystery woven with elements of folklore, Norse mythology, and horror.
  • Published: 15 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9781616953430
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 348
  • RRP: $35.00
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Praise for Little Wolves

"An ambitious mythic thriller that hums with energy and portent. Set under brooding prairie skies, Little Wolves has modern psychoses and generational wickedness, ravening devils and uneasy saints. It shifts and dodges like wind, and it rings with conviction and confidence."--Leif Enger, Author of Peace Like A River

"The poetry of this prose and the suspense of the plot, along with the intensity of characterization will have many readers comparing Thomas Maltman to Cormac McCarthy--that greatest of compliments--for very good reason. This novel is a work of high art by the real thing."--Laura Kasischke, author of Space, in Chains and The Life Before Her Eyes

"My overwhelming sensation upon reading this book is that it is a masterwork of fiction ... and I felt, often, as though I were reading some contemporary version of Dosteovesky."--Peter Geye, author of Safe from the Sea

PRAISE FOR THE NIGHT BIRDS
Alex Award Winner

"We all set our sights on the Great American Novel. . . . [Thomas Maltman] comes impressively close to laying his hands on the grail."--Boston Globe, Madison Smartt Bell

"Thomas Maltman's debut novel, The Night Birds, soars and sings like a feathered angel."--Chicago Sun-Times

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