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Bill Reed manages a wildlife sanctuary in rural Idaho, caring for injured animals-raptors, a wolf, and his beloved bear, Majer, among them-that are unable to survive in the wild. Seemingly rid of his troubled past, Bill hopes to marry the local veterinarian and live a quiet life together, the promise of which is threatened when a childhood friend is released from prison. Suddenly forced to confront the secrets of his criminal youth, Bill battles fiercely to preserve the shelter that protects these wounded animals and to keep hidden his turbulent, even dangerous, history. Alternating between past and present, Christian Kiefer contrasts the wreckage of Bill's crime-ridden years in Reno, Nevada, with the elusive promise of a peaceful future. In finely sculpted prose imaginatively at odds with the harsh, volatile world Kiefer evokes, The Animals builds powerfully toward the revelation of Bill's defining betrayal-and the drastic lengths Bill goes to in order to escape the consequences.
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A rare young stylist, with an abundance of vivid, engrossing stories in his brain; Christian Kiefer is a genuine find.--Richard Ford
The deep, dense prose Kiefer uses makes you slow down and take it all in. Word by word and sentence by sentence, Kiefer reels the reader into his world.--Heather Bobula
Eloquent and shattering, this novel explores, in gritty detail, how penance sometimes does not lead to redemption, a modern take on the story of Eden. Kiefer is a master wordsmith, and his dense and beautiful language intensifies the pain and isolation of the main character... Devastatingly beautiful. This novel embodies why we write and why we read.
A mesmerizing literary thriller... there's a thrilling story line that builds in momentum to an inevitable denouement, paced by prose that's poetic without ever succumbing to preciousness. This is a compelling, thoughtful novel.
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The deep, dense prose Kiefer uses makes you slow down and take it all in. Word by word and sentence by sentence, Kiefer reels the reader into his world.--Heather Bobula
Eloquent and shattering, this novel explores, in gritty detail, how penance sometimes does not lead to redemption, a modern take on the story of Eden. Kiefer is a master wordsmith, and his dense and beautiful language intensifies the pain and isolation of the main character... Devastatingly beautiful. This novel embodies why we write and why we read.
A mesmerizing literary thriller... there's a thrilling story line that builds in momentum to an inevitable denouement, paced by prose that's poetic without ever succumbing to preciousness. This is a compelling, thoughtful novel.
Christian Kiefer lives in Sacramento with his wife and six sons. He is the author of The Infinite Tides and composed a soundtrack to The Animals called What You Have Come for Is Death.
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