Description

In the Montana backcountry live two brothers who run a saw mill and do a little poaching on the side. Thad is the brains of the operation. His brother Hazen has a talent for tracking and hunting and getting himself into trouble. Together they have just about made it work, but now there are mounting bills, a leaky roof and winter is closing in. When a menacing figure known as the Scot offers them a risky but potentially lucrative hunting job in Yellowstone National Park, the brothers can’t refuse, but before long the precarious nature of their lives and their bond is exposed.

From a fresh new voice in American fiction, this is a propulsive, bracing story about the cost of survival set against the unforgiving wilderness of the American northwest.

Publisher Review

This taut, compelling novel explores the great outdoors-and a realm of moral uncertainty... A ferociously gripping book * The Economist * An atmospheric and superbly executed drama... The western trope of the strong, self-reliant individual contending with a lyrically described environment and its gnarled human inhabitants, driven by violent impulses and private moral codes, is upturned by Wink's close, convincing and unsentimental observation of people and nature... An emotionally rich and compelling piece of storytelling * Guardian * At once thoroughly wild and thoroughly intimate. The modest poetry of Callan's prose does justice both to the beauty of the wilderness and to the complexity of the brothers' relationship * New Statesman * A dual consciousness - of the sublime and exalted nature of the universe, and of its utter dispassion - flows through the novel * Irish Times * Wink knows his setting inside out... Definitely a writer to stick with * Daily Mail * Tense and gripping * The Gloss * One of the best and fiercest heist stories since A Simple Plan . . . Beartooth is unstoppable, the literary treasure you've been looking for -- Junot Diaz, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Beartooth sank its teeth into me. Callan Wink treats nature as a holy altar and a widening mouth, and he writes a story that moves as fast as a bullet down a barrel -- Benjamin Percy, author of Red Moon and The Comet Cycle I found something to love on every page of Beartooth. Callan Wink is a truly gifted writer -- Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time Callan Wink's Beartooth blew me away. What begins as propulsively as a finely drawn thriller ultimately resolves itself into something much more profound than that, at times in contact with the ineffable itself. I read it in a single sitting, but I'll be thinking about it for a long, long time to come -- Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds Ferocious, propulsive, elemental - Beartooth is both intimate and epic, a tale in which fellowship, freedom and beautiful wildness are inextricable from savagery, desperation, and brutal realism. This is vital writing, a novel to be celebrated -- Colin Walsh, author of Kala