The Trench Angel, by Michael Keenan Gutierrez
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"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. . . . The Trench Angel announces a great new talent set to shine for a long time."—Alexander Parsons, Leaving Disneyland
"Breathes new, vivid life into the old wild west."—Mat Johnson, Pym
"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 Train Dreams, this potent, lyrical novel unspools beyond its own time and lands squarely, unforgettably in our own."—Tim Horvath, Understories
Colorado, 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.
Michael Gutierrez, 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. The Trench Angel was a finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship.
The Trench Angel, by Michael Keenan Gutierrez- Amazon Sales Rank: #1497330 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-09-21
- Released on: 2015-09-21
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review An inherently absorbing and exceptionally well crafted novel from beginning to end, "The Trench Angel" showcases the extraordinary storytelling talents of author Michael Keenan Guiterrez. "The Trench Angel" is very highly recommended for community library Mystery/Suspense collections.—Midwest Book ReviewGutierrez's debut sets the industrialized murder of World War I as backdrop to the murderous industry of coal mining in the American West circa 1919.... While Gutierrez draws Paris, the Belgian war-front, and the rough-hewn frontier town with a good eye—"the sun hovered over the Rocky peaks, shading the mountain snow like a bruise"—the novel's unfiltered lens reveals war's cost to the human psyche, the amorality of concentrated wealth, the cancer of racial and ethnic hatred, and the nearly unresolvable conflict between familial loyalty and moral responsibility. By turns lyrical and brutal, Gutierrez stretches an intriguing piece of historical fiction to cover multiple themes. —KirkusThe Trench Angel is a vivid and engaging novel and it carries a doomed, bloody and wondrous vision of the World War I trenches and the American West in the years after The Great War. It's also a ripping good yarn. —John Dalton, Heaven Lake
About the Author Originally from Los Angeles, Michael Gutierrez holds an MFA in fiction from the University of New Hampshire and an MA in history from the University of Massachusetts. His work has been published in Scarab, The Pisgah Review, Untoward, The Boiler, Crossborder, and LA Weekly. The Trench Angel was a finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship. He resides with his wife in Chapel Hill, where teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Awards:The Austin Film Festival, Featured Screenplay (Drama), Semi-finalist, 2014. The Austin Film Festival, AMC One-Hour Pilot Award, Finalist, 2013. The James Jones First Novel Fellowship, FinalistNew York Public Library Research Fellowship, New York Public Library, 2011-2012. This award ($2500) is provided for research on a novel. The Tusculum Review, Short Story Contest, Finalist, 2009.Harpur Palate, John Gardner Fiction Prize, Finalist, 2009.Pushcart Prize, Nominee, 2009Best New American Voices, Nominee, 2006, 2008.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Literary sensibilities AND a fast paced plot. The best of both worlds! By laura The Trench Angel is a beautifully written novel with larger then life characters, a view of a world war through the eyes of a photographer, the legacy of his anarchist father and the murder he is accused of commiting in his small home town. There are a few beautiful and gritty scenes that have followed me, images that I think will stay with me, for a long time. One of my new favorite, yet instantly classic, first lines..."The men lined up for their pictures before they died."Literary sensibilities AND a fast paced plot.The best of all worlds.Highly Recommend!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. It's ok. By A Rochester There was nothing wrong with this book--just a matter of personal choice. I didn't like it very much.. Everything takes place in s small town. There are the usual small town characters, who don't like each other because of things that happened decades ago. The crooked sheriff is blackmailing all of the characters and he is murdered. There are numerous suspects, and the plot becomes convoluted. The main character is a professionalphotographer, who gained mild fame for his war time trench photographs. He among many is a suspect as is his father who is a type of terrorist who lives in Europe and blows up buildings. There are numerous back flashes to establish past history. The writing is fine, and the story is ok but i failed to get caught up in the plot.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. the characters so vividly portray what life could be like during that period By DEBRA D. JEAKINS THE TRENCH ANGEL BY MICHAEL KEENAN GUTIERREZ is a story of post WWI where men come home either physically or emotionally damaged by war. Its about one man, Neal Stephens who comes home from France with a secret, and he's being blackmailed for it. In between the covers you walk thru time back to depression, hatred and brutality.I found,reading this book,having to remind myself this is fiction,the characters so vividly portray what life could be like during that period. The only complaint I have about the book is the type face,too light for me,otherwise an interesting read.I received this book from goodreads in exchange for a review
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