{"product_id":"the-trench-angel-9781935248712","title":"The Trench Angel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In the Somme Valley a British soldier teaches his fellows to hide cigarette coals inside their mouths. Half a world away, a war-ruined photographer drinks in a bar beneath a Colorado butchery, blood dripping from the floorboards into ashtrays. Gutierrez writes with a metaphorical gift and fine hand of an age of war and upheaval where anarchists, coal barons, Pinkertons, corrupt police, broken idealists, and broken families fight to claim history's muddied field. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Trench Angel \u003c\/i\u003eannounces a great new talent set to shine for a long time.\"--Alexander Parsons, \u003ci\u003eLeaving Disneyland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Breathes new, vivid life into the old wild west.\"--Mat Johnson, \u003ci\u003ePym\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Gutierrez's splendid debut bypasses the archives, whisking us straightaway into the seedy saloons, the twisting back alleys, and the trenches. . . . Like Denis Johnson's \u003ci\u003eTrain Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, this potent, lyrical novel unspools beyond its own time and lands squarely, unforgettably in our own.\"--Tim Horvath, \u003ci\u003eUnderstories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColorado, 1919. Photographer Neal Stephens, home from the War, is blackmailed by the sheriff over his secret marriage to a black woman in France. When the sheriff is murdered, Neal's investigation calls up memories of the trenches and his search for his dead wife, as he untangles the connections among the murder, the coalminers' strike, and his mysterious anarchist father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Gutierrez\u003c\/b\u003e, MFA (fiction) and MA (history), teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill, and has published in many literary journals. \u003ci\u003eThe Trench Angel \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Leapfrog Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781935248712\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Keenan Gutierrez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38350547943605,"sku":"9781935248712","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_17a6f09a-02e1-41b1-b72c-970d46ca4d0a.jpg?v=1611645233","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-trench-angel-9781935248712","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}