BRADEN HEPNER graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2009 and now lives in Idaho with his wife and son. Pale Harvest is his first novel.
"An unforgettable literary blast...Hepner's characters are among
the most compelling in contemporary fiction. Readers will be moved
by the author's poetic rendition of the land's unique topography
that inflames, confounds, and rarely satisfies one's personal
hunger for carving out a meaningful and happy life."
--THE UTAH REVIEW "At once bleak and pleasingly beautiful, the
novel grows true from pain, betrayal, loss, love, and pale
salvation."
--15 BYTES "A dark novel by a deft storyteller."
--HIGH COUNTRY NEWS "Dazzlingly laconic, making poetry of the sheer
sweat and physicality of everyday life in a worn-out
landscape."
--LIBRARY JOURNAL, starred review "A meditation on the nature of
hope and self-determination, a sweeping elegy to a dying town and
to the bond between blood and earth."
--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review "A deeply moving and
intellectually profound novel built on the iconic myth of the
American West. Think McMurtry's The Last Picture Show or Horseman,
Pass By. A bravura debut."
--KIRKUS REVIEWS, starred review "Set in a rugged scrap of Utah,
this first novel rings with the hard-scrabble tones of
Steinbeck...lush with unusual vocabulary and microscopic detail
that combine to evoke a land and a kind of life singular to the
American West."
--FOREWORD REVIEWS "Hepner is a master storyteller, a craftsman of
the first order, and a fine new talent. His Western Realism is a
refreshing jolt, a throwback to Steinbeck and Stegner with its own
stamp of uniqueness."
--ANTHONY SWOFFORD, author of Jarhead "Hepner's starkly poetic
voice leads us into the lives of characters torn between the
imagined glories of the infinite and the raw realities of hard
labor here on earth."
--SCOTT SPENCER, author of Man in the Woods
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