Adam Laret, big, young and headstrong, ran from Ehrenberg to the banks of the Rio Colorado. He was blindly fleeing his scheming, gambling brother and the woman Guerd stole from him. But Adam's escape wasn't complete until Guerd, in the company of a sheriff, hunted him down. Then Adam committed the ultimate crime. With the mark of Cain upon him - he travelled into the desert to atone for his sins. In a vast, harsh world of heat and beauty, of stealthy creatures and gnawing starvation, Adam faced death and madmen, Indians and strangers who lived where life was impossible. But nothing he did, no act of courage, righteousness or violence, washed Adam clean. Until he met a woman and made a choice: to fight his way back to civilisation, the most dangerous place of all...
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[Grey] had the knack of tying his characters into the land, and the land into the story. There were other Eastern writers who had fast and furious action, but Zane Grey was the one who could make the action not only convincing but inevitable, and somehow you got the impression that the bigness of the country generated a bigness of character. --Erle Stanley Gardner
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This review is from: Wanderer of the Wasteland (Paperback)
I'm not sure I'd call "Wanderer of the Wasteland" Zane Grey's greatest, that is a title that I believe must be shared by his "Riders of the Purple Sage", "Call of the Canyon", and "The Vanishing American". What "Wanderer" is however is a great look at the genre of romantic western as written during the years Grey was active. Like all of Grey's books, the language is dated and for those used to later western authors (L'Amour, Brand, Leonard, Parker), his books appear more melodramatic as indeed "Wanderer" does. In some ways, his hunting and fishing stories were easier to read and in recent years it seems that Western fans are more in love with Grey himself, than his writing.
Starting with what appears to be a nervous breakdown, the hero of "Wanderer" sets off on the Colorado River and drifts down to the town of Picacho where he tries to reinvent himself and almost immediately falls for a young lady. Then, the hero's hated brother "Guerd" (yes, you read that right) shows up and ruins everything, including the love affair. After shooting Guerd in a fit of rage, the hero sets off across the "Wasteland" and encounters all sorts of physical discomfort, but is also befriended by a lone minder known as "Dismukes". Anyone who's driven through this part of the country on I-10, I-40, or I-8 will be amused by the descriptions of the desert. All of it's pretty unlikely, and at the same time the book is over the top melodrama. But, taken as it is and considering when it was written, it can be an enjoyable read...an artifact of the genre from the first half of the 20th Century. In any event, its a must have for any serious western buff's Zane Grey collection.
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