"On Swift Horses is a marvel, a beautifully written novel that traces its raw, guarded characters from California to Las Vegas to Mexico with grace and inevitability. This book knocked me flat on my back.” -Justin Torres, author of We the Animals Her voice is muscular, awesome, and pure. Read this book for the adventure, for the keening lyricism of the lost and searching, but mostly read this book because no one writes like Shannon Pufahl. “ On Swift Horses is about both risk and the risqué, about daring to know, name, and act on our own desires. It is, simply put, a masterpiece.”- Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena As an exploration of life lived in the outer distances of plain sight, it is suffused with hazard and touched by grace, furnished with the longevity of a postwar classic and the immediacy of the present tense. On Swift Horses is, for me, one of those books. “Once in a rare while you come across a novel of such transfixing beauty that it enlarges your faith in the medium itself. Shannon Pufahl discusses hew new novel, On Swift Horses with Anthony Marra.
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