{"product_id":"navarro-david-stacton-9781952138799","title":"Navarro","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The characters are boldly drawn and interesting, and Boyd writes with real style. One of the best westerns of the year. \" \u003ci\u003eDaily Oklahoman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-1800s, banditos swarmed into Arizona and Texas from Mexico, driven by the poverty and despair of a divided country, and terrorized homesteaders, ranchers and Indians, looting, burning, raping and killing. Navarro and his band were the worst of the banditos. No ranch, \u003ci\u003egringo\u003c\/i\u003e or Indian was safe from his savage cruelty. But that changes when Navarro brutalizes and kills Sis Henshaw. Now her furious brothers are chasing after him, hell-bent on violent and total retribution....and Navarro is discovering what real terror feels like. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"For those who like them fast-moving and brutal. It's excellent!\" \u003ci\u003eSan Angelo Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Carse Boyd\" was a pseudonym for David Derek Stacton (1923-1968), an acclaimed American poet and author, under various names, of literary fiction, historical novels, and soft-core gay porn. He was a two-time recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and also received a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work ranged from lurid tales like \u003ci\u003eD is for Delinquent\u003c\/i\u003e to a non-fiction book about the fall of Constantinople. His books under his own name include \u003ci\u003eThe Bonapartes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Judges of the Secret Order\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Signal Victory\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePeople of the Book: A Novel of the Thirty Years War\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in Denmark in 1968.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR DAVID STACTON (aka CARSE BOYD): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A stylistic virtuoso, matching on the typewriter the lightning flashes of such musical masters as Paganini on the violin,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"John Banville comes to mind as an author who so easily switches gears from fustian to fetid...it is fascinating to watch Stacton working out in the noirs the kind of novelist he would become. From the beginning, Stacton is drawn to a certain kind of person, the kind who is the 'victim of the propulsive force of his own character.'\" \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The prose of David Stacton is like that of no other writer. It suggests a corridor in a dark Gothic tower, ill-lit by tapers, at one end of which a gong sounds incessantly.\"\u003ci\u003eTime Magazaine \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The most unjustly neglected American novelist of the post-war years, David Stacton's ambitious high style and melodrama have seen him banished. It's time for a return to favour. Few writers have managed more fully than Stacton to bear out Gore Vidal's maxim that writers shouldn't 'write what they know' but, rather, what they imagine or suspect.'... and yet, Stacton himself can be seen to hide in plain sight behind everything he wrote.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"His prose reveals great cultural depth and breadth. He uses language lovingly. Almost every sentence contains a striking metaphor or simile. Aphorisms sparkle from paragraph to paragraph.\" \u003ci\u003eFort Worth Star-Telegram\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"David Stacton is a major writer who has the approval of critics but so far lacks the consent of readers at large. In short, it's the story of literary virtue unrewarded...his novels are enjoyable as well as admirable.\" \u003ci\u003eOakland Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Stacton,Carse Boyd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1952138795\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781952138799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cutting Edge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.39d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Stacton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48800696140031,"sku":"9781952138799","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/navarro-david-stacton-9781952138799","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}