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A scrappy Brooklyn orphan turned vengeful assassin narrates a visionary tale of the American West

In this panoramic tale of Manifest Destiny--the second stand-alone book in The American Novels series--Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that... Read Full Overview

" Lock's fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights." --NPR " Lock] is one of the most interesting writers out there." --"Reader's Digest" "Lock writes some of the most deceptively beautiful sentences in contemporary fiction. Beneath their clarity... Read Full Overview

In this panoramic tale of manifest destiny, Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward from his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing fields of the Civil War to the Battle... Read Full Overview