Letting Loose the Hounds Author:Brady Udall From the back cover: — "Exhilarating or chilling...Mr. Udall's stories can be as funny as they are dark." — --The New York Times Book Review — Exploding with an unsettling exuberance, Brady Udall's stories traverse a georgraphy of lost love, fragmented lives, and satisfying revenge. From the night a six-foot-three Apache Indian holding a goat steps... more » into a moonlit Arizona backyard in "Midnight Raid," to the pivotal moment when a man delirious from a dental extraction gets rescued by a stranger in the title story, Udall injects his stories and characters with equal parts darkness and humor. Shimmering with life and the irresistible pull of the heart, these eleven stories literally let loose--and leave us sated with a raw yet romantic vision of the men and women in today's still-wild west.
"Udall's West emerges as a place of passion and despair without the mythic overtones of gunslingers and Marlboro men. It is a place filled with as much laughter as tears, and a place that I hope we hear from again quite soon."
--Michael A. Elliott, The Boston Book Review
"Udall brings a knowing ambivalence to his men...robust....These are Western nuggets well worth cracking."