Soledad, or Solitudes (Texas Tradition Series)

"Vliet's prose is a joy and a continual surprise. There is nobody else with his talent for evoking Texas as it was in the 1880's; nobody else who gives us the same sharp feeling for landscape, animals, birds, changing skies, and above all for the people, as they lived out their solitary, violent lives full of kindness, resentments, and hardships accepted without complaint. Vliet's writing is close to being a national treasure." - Malcolm Cowley Texas, in the 1880's. A man, provoked, kills another man. In the dead man's pocket, a picture of a beautiful woman. In the mind of the man who killed him, an obsessive determination to find the woman, and to know her. It is this search, and the eventual confrontation of passion and will, that galvanize this remarkable, and remarkably involving, novel about life in another time, another place...