{"product_id":"9780857303189","title":"Whiskey When We're Dry","description":"Author: John Larison\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780857303189\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: No Exit Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 17 Jun 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 432 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gritty and lyrical American epic about a young woman who disguises herself as a boy and heads West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gritty and lyrical American epic about a young woman who disguises herself as a boy and heads West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbours, she cuts her hair, binds her chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find her gun-slinging fugitive brother Noah and bring him home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA talented sharpshooter herself, Jess's quest lands her in the employ of the territory's violent, capricious governor, whose militia is also hunting Noah - dead or alive. Wrestling with her brother's outlaw identity, and haunted by questions of her own, Jess must outmanoeuvre those who underestimate her, ultimately rising to become a hero in her own right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in Jess's wholly original and unforgettable voice, the story brims with page-turning Western action, but its approach is modern and nuanced, touching on powerful issues from gender and sexuality to family and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the sweeping storytelling tradition of Larry McMurtry's \u003cem\u003eLonesome Dove\u003c\/em\u003e and Charles Frazier's \u003cem\u003eCold Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWhiskey When We're Dry\u003c\/em\u003e transcends the straight-and-narrow Western to land among the classics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46548113752222,"sku":"HPC-9780857303189","price":23.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780857303189.jpg?v=1771807983","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780857303189","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}