West

"Slender, stark, and utterly mesmerizing." -The Mail on Sunday (UK)

"A tightly-knit, compulsively readable tale...Davies' slender novel has all the heft of a sprawling western classic." -Booklist, starred review

"From a distance, West looks like a slim fable; but a closer view reveals a peculiarly American self-delusion, opening up like a vast prairie. Davies is an audaciously talented writer to watch." -Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"As in a lofty Bierstadt painting, Davies' slim novel presents a landscape of mystery and longing, of possibility and the hunt for the impossible....This is a book you could read in an afternoon. But you won't want to. Davies' prose is something you'll want to savor." -Suzie Eckl, Washington Independent Review of Books

"This small book is a visionary and beautiful fable of discovery and dreaming, along with some harsh truths about the reality of American history and its dreamers' lives...And the writing is astonishing, right to the heart-stopping end." -Sydney Morning Herald

"Moving, atmospheric." -Real Simple

"A page-turner that can stop you in your tracks to linger over a sentence...It's a bravura performance - seasons come and go in a handful of words and there are masterful shifts of perspective and tense - but Davies's artistry is matched by her storytelling powers, and her denouement is cheer-raisingly satisfying." -Daily Mail