The Master Executioner edition by Loren D Estleman Literature Fiction eBooks
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NYT Bestselling author Harlen Coben says of Loren Estleman, "Loren Estleman is my hero," and Bestselling author John Lescroart calls him "The Stravinsky of hard-boiled prose..." Winner of multiple Spur, Western Heritage, and Stirrup awards, and a lifetime achievement award honoree by the Western Writers of America, Estleman is back with "The Master Executioner," a classic novel of the old west.
Ordinary people do not understand Oscar Stone. Everything he does, he does impeccably. He is a profound student of his art, completely versed in its traditions over the centuries. He is a student of ropes and their properties, a master of the latest scientific knowledge about the human neck, a careful calculator of weights and drops, and an exacting observer of results.
For more than a quarter of a century he has worked to create a reputation as a man peerless in his craft the master executioner.
Yet he is utterly alone His devotion to his work costs him his marriage. Suddenly, one day, a piece of his past catches him unawares, and Oscar comes to a moment of devastating truth and for the first time knows himself.
The Master Executioner edition by Loren D Estleman Literature Fiction eBooks
These days it is popular to tell people to work and what they love and success will be sure to follow. The Master Executioner is about a man who takes this advice and its impact on his life.This is not my grandfather's western. It is a modern novel that takes place in the years just after the Civil War and before the turn of the century, when people were migrating in hordes from east to west and industrial innovations were happening so fast the landscape could change from year to year.
Oscar Stone is a pragmatist. After abandoning his father's farm and serving in the Union army during the war, he decides to leave the east completely and travel to Missouri. He reasons that with a building boom going on, carpenters will be in short supply, so he apprentices and becomes an excellent carpenter. From his master he receives advice, which he takes to heart about being a craftsman and being meticulous and knowledgeable about your work. During his last months in the war, he sees a lynching, badly handled, and this affects him profoundly.
While apprenticed, Oscar meets a young woman and applies his formidable honesty and persistence in winning over her reluctant father and they take a wagon train west. But they are late to the party. There is a surfeit of carpenters and Oscar has a hard time finding work. Finally, he takes a temporary job building a gallows and meets Rudd, a master hangman. Rudd tells Oscar the young man has a gift and would likely make an excellent hangman. It is steady employment, and best of all, a chance to experience satisfaction in a job well done. Rudd offers to teach him everything he knows, and eventually, over his own misgivings, and his wife's flat opposition, Oscar becomes the hangman's apprentice. It is an experience and occupation that is both more satisfying and more unforgiving than he could ever have expected. He loses his wife over it and the majority of the book covers his subsequent career and attempts to locate her.
This is not a book of self-examination. Though generally more honest with himself than most people, Oscar Stone is not that kind of man. And Estleman deliberately confines himself to Oscar's actions and conversations, leaving it open about what the man actually feels which makes it ironically easier to understand him.
Though the novel is full of criminals, each walks the stage for a short time only, which makes it all the more remarkable that Estleman's clear writing can make them all so human and mostly pitiable. Oscar, however, remains the star, a man of neat habits who looks more like a banker than a hangman, a problem-solver, and a man who takes pride in providing each client with a swift and painless death.
Eventually Oscar finds his wife again and once more his life is altered permanently. The ending is one of those which seems inevitable and is therefore satisfying, but you don't anticipate it because Estleman's writing is like setting yourself afloat in a briskly moving creek - you go with the flow and are content to do so. In their ways, so did Rudd the hangman, and his apprentice Oscar Stone.
Historical novels about the old west are not a usual choice for me, but the subject and the sample I read made me want more so I bought the book. I am very glad I did.
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The Master Executioner edition by Loren D Estleman Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Not a bad read
This was a very interesting book. It was much different than the normal Loren Estleman novel. I was very involved in the plot and enjoyed how the author drove the reader deeper and deeper into the final conclusion.
This book seemed so full of authenticity on a grim subject that I wasn't sure whether it was a biography of sorts or merely fiction based on fact.
In a macabre way I enjoyed it very much. I could almost feel the fear and that rough hemp around my neck, waiting for the trap to spring.
I was leery at first as many genre writers are not very good at all, but I was interested in the topic. Turned out to be quite well written and very informative, and a good novel as well. (should we go back to hanging instead of lethal injection?)
I guess the writer had a point but it was poorly made. I enjoyed the writing. It flowed and was never boring. In the end I concluded that there was no real point to the book. The ending was not a great shock, more of a let down. If you have an afternoon to waste this will fill it nicely. Just don't expect much more.
The subject of a hangman is very different from the usual western story.This is interesting since it is so unusual for the training of the hangman and the things he has to know to be good at his profession. Most of the posse hangings were very horrible affairs if you take into consideration the right way to do it. In the heat of the moment,I daresay ,no one cared if the miscreant suffered or not,just as long as they got the job done. This story is very well written by the great Loren Estleman.
No one writes a better western than Loren D. Estleman. In The Master Executioner, Estleman tells the story of a hangman in the middle of the 19th century. As is always the case with this author, the reader is treated to incredible dialogue and characters that are immediately drawn with a few expert lines and details. I will not give away the ending, suffice to say this is a terribly sad novel about a complex and very unique man. Estleman is too fine a writer to pull at your heartstrings in a clichéd or obvious way. The man character, Executioner Oscar Stone, is not the sort of character that would easily win a reader's sympathy. He is, first and foremost, a hangman. He is also a hard, cold individual never at ease among his fellow humans. Yet, in Estleman's expert hands, this character lives and breaths and, finally, effects the reader very deeply.
Estleman is also the master of the authentic western. This book contains rich, detailed portraits of western towns, both large and small, from this time period. He is always accurate in the details, and I always feel Estleman gives me the most accurate portrait of how things really must have been in the West, more so than any other author. For the best taste of this, one should read Bloody Season by this author for the best account of the Shootout at the OK Corral.
Fascinating characters and great, original writing. Buy this book. You will not regret it.
These days it is popular to tell people to work and what they love and success will be sure to follow. The Master Executioner is about a man who takes this advice and its impact on his life.
This is not my grandfather's western. It is a modern novel that takes place in the years just after the Civil War and before the turn of the century, when people were migrating in hordes from east to west and industrial innovations were happening so fast the landscape could change from year to year.
Oscar Stone is a pragmatist. After abandoning his father's farm and serving in the Union army during the war, he decides to leave the east completely and travel to Missouri. He reasons that with a building boom going on, carpenters will be in short supply, so he apprentices and becomes an excellent carpenter. From his master he receives advice, which he takes to heart about being a craftsman and being meticulous and knowledgeable about your work. During his last months in the war, he sees a lynching, badly handled, and this affects him profoundly.
While apprenticed, Oscar meets a young woman and applies his formidable honesty and persistence in winning over her reluctant father and they take a wagon train west. But they are late to the party. There is a surfeit of carpenters and Oscar has a hard time finding work. Finally, he takes a temporary job building a gallows and meets Rudd, a master hangman. Rudd tells Oscar the young man has a gift and would likely make an excellent hangman. It is steady employment, and best of all, a chance to experience satisfaction in a job well done. Rudd offers to teach him everything he knows, and eventually, over his own misgivings, and his wife's flat opposition, Oscar becomes the hangman's apprentice. It is an experience and occupation that is both more satisfying and more unforgiving than he could ever have expected. He loses his wife over it and the majority of the book covers his subsequent career and attempts to locate her.
This is not a book of self-examination. Though generally more honest with himself than most people, Oscar Stone is not that kind of man. And Estleman deliberately confines himself to Oscar's actions and conversations, leaving it open about what the man actually feels which makes it ironically easier to understand him.
Though the novel is full of criminals, each walks the stage for a short time only, which makes it all the more remarkable that Estleman's clear writing can make them all so human and mostly pitiable. Oscar, however, remains the star, a man of neat habits who looks more like a banker than a hangman, a problem-solver, and a man who takes pride in providing each client with a swift and painless death.
Eventually Oscar finds his wife again and once more his life is altered permanently. The ending is one of those which seems inevitable and is therefore satisfying, but you don't anticipate it because Estleman's writing is like setting yourself afloat in a briskly moving creek - you go with the flow and are content to do so. In their ways, so did Rudd the hangman, and his apprentice Oscar Stone.
Historical novels about the old west are not a usual choice for me, but the subject and the sample I read made me want more so I bought the book. I am very glad I did.
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