{"product_id":"four-corners-isbn-9781619022973","title":"Four Corners","description":"\u003ci\u003eFour Corners\u003c\/i\u003e is a bare-knuckled debut novel about life, love, and violence along four states of the American southwest — both a savage, mean-streets thriller and a heartbreaking story of unfortunate love. For the better part of thirty-seven years, Frank Bruce has hobbled through life, dragging his hunger for amphetamines, alcohol, and crime behind him like a heap of tarnished weight. Now, emboldened by the love of his child-fiancé Maddie Nicole, Frank goes on the run through the drug underworld of the Southwest trying to save a young boy from his meth-riddled father and casino mogul grandfather. Caught in a cat-and-mouse chase but still determined to protect what he loves, Frank seeks help from his onetime mentor, legendary drug kingpin Jon Santer. But in doing so, Frank triggers a vile reckoning with his terrible, violent past.\"Rudolph means to stress that hard-luck people can be as hard to quit as hard drugs, and the tone the author gives Frank is appealingly flinty and worn...The strength of Frank’s voice compensates for the flaws, though, recalling down-and-out tales like Don Carpenter’s \u003ci\u003eHard Rain Falling\u003c\/i\u003e or Daniel Woodrell’s \u003ci\u003eGive Us a Kiss\u003c\/i\u003e.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e...\"the plot is rendered in vivid, punch-drunk prose, colored by the cold, jaundiced sunlight of late December in the high desert, a land so imbued with harshness that even its snowflakes prick the flesh.\" —\u003ci\u003eLA Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wally Rudolph's meth-and-cocaine-addled protagonists reel through a nonstop catastrophe of violence, flight, and revenge, too self-destructive to have anything more than a prayer--but they are real. They suffer and love and worship, however crazily. The action is urgent and compelling, the details are as crisp as the light that falls on Santa Fe. Wally knows the territory. And the territory is the human heart.” —Jack Butler, Pulitzer Prize Nominee for \u003ci\u003eLiving in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFour Corners\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that will stay with me for a long time, an outstanding first novel by a writer unafraid to scrape the crud off the floor of the human psyche. The best kind of crime fiction.” —Scott Phillips, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ice Harvest\u003c\/i\u003e and Hop Alley\u003cb\u003eWALLY RUDOLPH\u003c\/b\u003e is a multidisciplinary artist and novelist based in Los Angeles. He is the author of the literary novels \u003ci\u003eFour Corners \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMIGHTY, MIGHTY\u003c\/i\u003e (Counterpoint\/Soft Skull). His work explores identity, power, memory, and the unseen forces shaping ordinary lives, often moving between realism and the surreal. A former Writer-in-Residence at the Annenberg Beach House in Santa Monica, Rudolph’s artistic practice spans fiction and screen, with guest-starring roles on\u003ci\u003e Sons of Anarchy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLegion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStreet Kings\u003c\/i\u003e, and the award-winning independent film \u003ci\u003eBang Bang\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Canada to Jamaican immigrants and raised in Texas, he now lives in Los Angeles with his son, Redd.","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305033978085,"sku":"NP9781619022973","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781619022973.jpg?v=1767727603","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/four-corners-isbn-9781619022973","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}