Interesting Territory
Thursday, Jul 19, 2007 at 9:31pmIf all you remember of Tombstone is the underwhelming movie,or worse the bloated vanity vehicle, sit down and read Territory. It is as bold a retelling of Western Myth as I have enjoyed in recent memory.
Bull fills her novel with a cast of familiar and not so familiar characters. You think you know Wyatt Earp and John Ringo? Think again. Fiction and fantasy weave themselves together as the climax of the book builds like a thunderstorm. Sudden, powerful, and violent.
Territory's original characters, Jesse Fox, Mildred Benjamin and Chow Lung, all more than hold their own with the likes of the Earp's and the Holliday's. A conversation between Fox, horse tamer by trade, and Benjamin, a newspaper typesetter, led to my favourite line of the entire book. Oddly enough they are discussing books themselves, when Jesse states "...the sort of day that can be brightened by Hamlet doesn't give you time to read."
Emma Bull and her husband, and fellow fantasy author will be at our Saskatoon location on July 24th and Winnipeg (Grant Park Location) on July 25th. And while I haven't had the chance to read Shetterly's Gospel of the Knife yet, given its recent review on Cory Doctorow's Boing Boing, it is the next book on my pile.
Check out Bull and Shetterly's Blog.
Previously: Shetterly Gets BoingBoinged, and More Doctorow-Shetterly Love.
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