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The Adventures of Don Valiente and the Apache Canyon Kid (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Edizione Inglese di Mary W. Walters (Autore), John A. Aragon (Autore) Formato: Formato Kindle
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The West will never be the same . . . .

New Mexico, 1922.

The orphaned eighteen-year-old stablehand Rosalind Grundy is seduced by a married woman, and faces a lynching after the pair is surprised in flagrante delicto. But she manages to escape with the aid of a strange and aristocratic old man who calls himself Don Valiente.

Don Valiente, having read too many dime westerns, has come to believe that he is a famous gunfighter. He thinks Roz is a young man named Ross, and he takes her under his wing, intending to teach her and to revive "The Code Of The Caballeros."

Don Valiente and Roz embark on a series of comic adventures. But when they come upon a grisly murder scene and the trail of three escaped-convict killers, Roz realizes that her only chance to survive the imminent showdown and to reunite with her true love lies in her ability to separate Don Valiente's madness from the eternal truths in his teaching.

“The western dime novel meets Don Quixote and goes digital in this mash-up of hair-raising tales. It’s a bold and sexy chase from end to end.” — Fred Stenson, author of The Trade, Lightning, and The Great Karoo
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    290 pagine
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  4. Data di pubblicazione
    14 gennaio 2013
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    738 KB
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L'autore

John A. Aragon was born in Española, New Mexico. A former Forest Service "Hotshot" firefighter and Hall of Fame rugby player, he attended Saint John's College in Santa Fe and the University of New Mexico. Mr. Aragon is the father of two young adults and a practicing trial lawyer for thirty years. His first novel, Billy The Kid’s Last Ride, was published by Sunstone Press in 2011. He works and writes in Santa Fe.

Mary W. Walters is an award-winning author of three novels, The Woman Upstairs (NeWest Press, 1987), Bitters (NeWest, 1999) and Rita Just Wants to Be Thin (2014) as well as a collection of short stories (Cool, River Books, 2000). She has won a Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Excellence in Writing, and her short fiction has been short-listed for such prizes as the CBC/Saturday Night Fiction Competition and the Journey Prize, and has been published in more than a dozen literary journals and magazines. She is also the author of Write an Effective Funding Application: A Guide for Researchers and Scholars (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). She lives in Toronto.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00B1X10MW
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 738 KB
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  • Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 290 pagine
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John D. W. Kettlewell
5,0 su 5 stelle A premium read at a bargain price
Recensito in Canada il 27 giugno 2015
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This is a really fun book to read. It would make a wonderful movie. The main characters are well developed and have their own humerous personality traits that are woven carefully into the intriguing plot which moves along smartly. Part of the fun of this book is Don Valiente's periodic philosophical dissertations which are at the same time both thoughtful and amusing but in great contrast to the Apache Kid's musings which are not learned and are down to earth.

If the authors were well known the book might make the best sellers list and be priced significantly higher than it is. A premium read at a bargain price.
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Blackie Noir
5,0 su 5 stelle Don Valiente's . . . "Code Of The Caballeros" . . . an eternal truth.
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 8 novembre 2013
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Solid plotting. Terrific, vividly alive, characters, in a seamless collaboration.

I haven't read a collaboration, involving the American west, this smoothly executed since Larry McMurtry and Dianna Ossana were working together. Although I first came across the work of John A. Aragon and Mary W. Walters in 2007 (ABNA contest), and I'm familiar with their individual voices / styles, in Don Valiente I can't really tell where one leaves off and the other picks up the narrative. To me, that's a hallmark of deft literary craftsmanship.

What do you seek in a novel? Layered plot? Nuanced characters? Drama? Adventure? Humor? Pathos? Action? If you've answered, "all of the above," then DV is the book for you.
Don Valiente and Roz are beautifully conceived characters.

Is DV a madman? Perhaps, but his dementia lies in his perception / distortion of tangible detail. As far as his metaphysical grasp of the universal truths goes, you couldn't find a more astute intellect, a more intact integrity. He's a rare soul, one who can maintain an aura of dignity even when being thrown by his stalwart (but skeletal) stallion, Relampago.

Quite simply, Roz is a joy. Rawhide tough, crude on the outside, she's a young woman coming of age, with all the self-doubt, vulnerability, and naivety shared by all adolescents. Unfortunately, Roz has no one; parents, relatives, friends, to guide her. Until DV comes into her life.

Once DV and Roz team up, the scenes / dialogue they share are priceless. Often hilarious, always poignant, their interaction alone is worth the price of admission. Don V and Roz could carry the whole narrative if needed, so well developed are they, but all the better for readers there's no need, they've got lots of help.

DON VALIENTE AND THE APACHE CANYON KID has a plethora of supporting characters; lawmen, convicts, cowboys, whores, politicians (is there a distinction between the latter two?), a famous actress, the first lady of New Mexico, gunslingers, lawyers, and a gunslinging lawyer, that are all well developed, and encompass the entire spectrum from appealing to revolting.

Among the most revolting, a terrible trio of villains: Kruger, Leta, and Crawford `The Beast.' A moral dilemma for these three animals is . . . whether they should shoot a family of settlers before they burn them, or, should they burn them alive.

You won't find Don Valiente tilting at windmills, but he won't hesitate to ride straight at, and empty both blazing six-guns into, a charging Pierce-Arrow. This victory over the brujo "Bat Nose" brought DV the fabled war bonnet of El Mimbreno. If you ride along with DV and Roz will you get your own legendary war-bonnet? Maybe not, but you're sure to have an amazing and wonderful trip.
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Bev
5,0 su 5 stelle Like watching an enjoyable movie
Recensito in Canada il 15 maggio 2014
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The description was so well written that I could see "my movie" while I read the book. Loved every minute of it. The drama, the suspense, the humor, and, especially, the thought provoking comments on life and good and evil, just got better and better as the story unfolded.
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Harvey Griffin
4,0 su 5 stelle Don Quixote with a lesbian Sancha Panza
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 1 aprile 2013
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When I knew John Aragon he was a semi-pro rugby player who occasionally beat me at chess. Now, John is a trial lawyer, a novelist, and he is so good at chess that I may as well just tip over my king now. I don't know which is worse. Actually, I do know: that he can clobber me at chess is worse.

Tfitoby [...]-tfitoby was looking for noir westerns awhile back. This puppy just may be one. "Noir" in the sense of: Just Throw Out All Your Preconceptions About Western Novels Now, Because Whatever You Think This Novel Is Up To, That Ain't It, And Every Time I Thought I Might Know What Was Going To Happen Next--Nope.

A short description would be something like: A retelling of Don Quixote with a lesbian Sancha Panza.

The long description would include a jail-break, multiple murders, two posses, a hero(ine) the "good guys" try to hang three times, more fumbling about and incompetence than Cervantes could have imagined, a location movie set shot up with actual bullets, a movie star rescued (or kidnapped, depending on who is telling the event), a Sheriff fired, oh and did I mention courtroom drama?

For me, this novel improved as I got further into it. The free sample just barely got me to buy it; then, the story slowly grew on me. Good job, John!

The eBook version irritated me because many of the apostrophes were rendered as opening single quotes (curly facing the wrong way). I know from experience with my own eBooks, that automatic software conversion programs get these wrong; and that it is hard to hunt down every occurrence and fix them all. But here, it looks to me like the writers didn't even try to fix this problem. Possibly, they proofed in a font with straight quotes, where the problem would not show up. For my sci-fi novel DAUGHTER MOON, I eventually decided to live with a few of these backward curlies (and a couple of misspellings) because the thought of proofreading the whole damn thing ONE MORE TIME was just too much.

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Audrie Clifford
5,0 su 5 stelle Walters (2012) is a positive delight, especially to those of us who live in ...
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 5 gennaio 2015
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I've just finished reading THE ADVENTURES OF DON VALIENTE AND THE APACHE CANYON KID for the second time. This book, co-authored by John Aragon and Mary W. Walters (2012) is a positive delight, especially to those of us who live in New Mexico.The story is a bit had to describe, but roughly, it's about a young woman with problems of her own who is taken under the wing of a skinny old man suffering from dementia who mistakes her gender and determines to teach her/him the Code of the Caballeros.
The book is a complete farce and had me laughing aloud. Think Blazing Saddles.
My thanks to both authors. I adored it.
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