In the Rogue Blood

Description

“Powerful. . . impressive. . . [an] epic of the 1840s frontier.” —Dallas Morning News

With soaring and masterful prose, James Carlos Blake brings to life an enthralling historical time and place–and a cast of memorable characters–in a stunning tale of dark instinct, blood reckoning, and fates forged in the zeal of America’s “Manifest Destiny.”

The offspring of a mother of ill repute and a homicidal father, Edward and John Little are driven from their home in the Florida swamplands by a scheming parent’s treacheries, and by a shameful, horrific act that will haunt their dreams for the rest of their days. Joining the swelling ranks of the rootless–wandering across an almost surreal bloodland populated by the sorrowfully lost and defiantly damned–two brothers are separated by death and circumstance in the lawless “Dixie City” of New Orleans, and dispatched by destiny to opposing sides in a fierce and desperate territorial struggled between Mexico and the United States. And a family bond tempered in hot blood is tested in the cruel, all-consuming fires of war and conscience.

Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: J. Blake, James Carlos Blake (Author)
Published: 10/01/1998
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780380792412
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 0.94″ H x 8.46″ L x 5.76″ W

Award: 1997 L.A. Times Book Prize Winner – Fiction

About the Author
Blake, J.: – James Carlos Blake was born in Mexico and raised in Texas. The most recent of his four novels is Red Grass River. His previous novels, In the Rogue Blood, received the LA Times Book Prize for Fiction. His short fiction has won awards and has appeared in a variety of literary journals. He lives in El Paso, Texas, and DeLand, Florida.Blake, James Carlos: –

James Carlos Blake is the author of nine novels. Among his literary honors are the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Southwest Book Award, Quarterly West Novella Prize, and Chautauqua South Book Award. He lives in Arizona.