{"product_id":"trouble-no-man-a-novel-isbn-9780062698322","title":"Trouble No Man: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican War\u003c\/em\u003e meets \u003cem\u003eInto the Wild\u003c\/em\u003e in Brian Hart’s epic saga of one man’s struggle to survive a hostile world—tracing his path from a self-destructive, skateboarding youth in the 90s to the near future as he journeys across a desolate, militia-controlled American West to find his missing family—perfect for fans of Edan Lepuki and Cormac McCarthy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the America of a near future, northern California and the Pacific Northwest have become a desolate wasteland controlled by violent separatist militias and marked by a lack of water and fuel. In a village outside Reno, a middle-aged man visits an undertaker and gathers the ashes of his dead wife to bring to Alaska. There, their children await them—refugees from the destruction of the south. To reach his only remaining family, the man must cross the treacherous, violent landscape north by bike, his dog his only companion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty years earlier, we meet Roy Bingham. After a rough-and-tumble childhood, Roy is numbing himself with skateboarding, drugs, and sex, when he meets Karen. Sassy, soulful, and arresting, Karen pulls Roy into her orbit until she decides to give up their nomadic lifestyle to put down roots in her hometown of Loyalton, California. Roy’s fidelity buckles under the commitment and after a boozy night in Reno he leaves Karen for the road and skateboarding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlashing back and forth in time across four decades in the life of a man who is lost even when he’s found, \u003cem\u003eTrouble No Man\u003c\/em\u003e delivers a resonant story of survival, violence, and family, set against the tumult of an America on the precipice of becoming an unfree nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eIn the America of the near future, California has become a desolate wasteland controlled by violent separatist militias and marked by a lack of water and fuel. In a village outside Reno, Nevada, a middle-aged man visits an undertaker and gathers the ashes of his dead wife to bring to Alaska, where their children await. To reach them, the man must go north by bike across a treacherous, violent landscape, his dog his only companion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty years earlier, we meet Roy Bingham. After a rough-and-tumble childhood, Roy numbs himself with skateboarding, drugs, and sex. Then he meets Karen Oronski. Sassy, soulful, and arresting, Karen pulls Roy into her orbit until she decides to give up their nomadic lifestyle and put down roots in her hometown of Loyalton, California. Roy buckles under the commitment, and after a boozy night in Reno, he leaves Karen for the road and skateboarding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlashing back and forth in time across four decades in the life of a man who is lost even when he’s found, \u003cem\u003eTrouble No Man\u003c\/em\u003e delivers a resonant story of survival and family, set against the tumult of an America on the precipice of becoming an unfree nation.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Bully of Order\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e “This crackling, lightning-bolt energy and patient attention to even the lowest of characters recalls the work of Denis Johnson… helped along by an energizing sense of humor and a virtuosic control of plot… Hart has created a Dickensian portrait of the barely settled Pacific Northwest.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mesmerizing…. Hart has conjured a singular, searing world. When you step into this novel you submit to its dream… [and] believe in his large gift that leaves you stunned and breathless. A wonderful, unique portrait of a particular landscape I now see anew.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmanda Coplin, author of The Orchardist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hart’s sense of place is brilliant…. There are dazzling characterizations… [and] a dense, deep and illuminating narrative… of greed and ambition and of fathers and sons…. Think the brutal realities of McCarthy’s \u003cem\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/em\u003e set among the primeval forests of the Pacific Northwest frontier.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus, starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eTrouble No Man \u003c\/em\u003eis a standout in dystopian fiction, a post-punk Western chronicling one man’s decline and fall amid an empire’s. Brian Hart is the rare literary talent who can move readers with a subtle knowledge of both tenderness and horror. A deeply impressive, insightful work of realism.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrian Van Reet, Author of Spoils\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Luminous, brutal, and tenderhearted, \u003cem\u003eTrouble No Man\u003c\/em\u003e rewires tired and toxic cowboy tropes to build a newer, truer sort of Western.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Christie, author of If I Fall, I Die\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Roy’s evolution from self-sabotaging youth to family man, and his journey’s achingly nostalgic tone, are a compelling counterweight to the bursts of cruelty and raw violence in his encounters with militiamen. Dystopian thrillers can be conversational gold in book-group settings, and this one offers story-driving humanity that refuses to take a back seat to the well-crafted neo-western setting.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As a social critique, it’s interesting, as a character-portrait, Faulknerian….a future disturbingly close to the present.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888485134565,"sku":"NP9780062698322","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062698322.jpg?v=1730229186","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/trouble-no-man-a-novel-isbn-9780062698322","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}