Beartooth

A Novel

De: Callan Wink

Narrado por: Will Damron

A cinematic, propulsive novel about a heist gone wrong and the bond between two brothers, for fans of American Rust and The Devil All the Time.

Beartooth is a novel about two survivalist brothers in desperate straits, who are lured into committing a crime in Yellowstone National Park. Thad and Hazen, long ago abandoned by their wayward mother, are drowning in medical bills and notices about back taxes. They live alone in an aging, timber house hand-built into the leeside of the Beartooth Mountains. Thad’s the older brother, responsible, a loner, the caretaker of Hazen, who is a little . . . different. Until recently, they made ends meet the same way their father did: by working thirteen-hour days up and down the mountain splitting firewood, selling the cords door-to-door. When a menacing figure named The Scot appears with a lucrative proposition to extract stolen artifacts out of Yellowstone, the brothers can’t refuse, despite the staggering odds and the enormous risk. Evoking the most timeless voices of American pastoral storytelling, from John Steinbeck to Cormac McCarthy, Beartooth is a bracing, profoundly moving novel about survival, revenge, and escape.

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The perserverance of the Brothers

I liked the survivalist mentality. Didn’t like the younger brother not getting more applause for his journey to escape the situation he was in.
All in All Good. About to read AUGUST.

Book skips!

Cool story, good performance but there were 4 or 5 times where it glitched and skipped

Trip thru canyon!

Garbled speaking in the last hour! I missed some parts because something skipped. Gripping story of 2 young men struggling thru life

A Great Story!

If you liked "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver, you will enjoy "Beartooth". I think I would call "Beartooth" the "Demon Copperhead" of the northern Rockies. It is a well written, well plotted story with characters both believable and relatable. Callan WInk does a wonderful job of describing the beauty of the Montana mountains without romanticizing them. Yes, the area is beautiful. But it is also harsh and dangerous while life there can be difficult and draining in many ways. Do give this book a listen. You will come away very much taken with the main characters.
Many years ago, I visited the Beartooth area of Montana. After all this time, I can still recall the beautiful mountain meadows and lakes. People were few and far between. But "Beartooth" has given me insight into and appreciation for both the land and the people who call it home.

the book skipped, but otherwise a great story.

The book skipped twice and takes the listner out of the story.
The landscape is amazingly written and reminds me of places I've been lucky enough to have visted.

Don't expect an exciting heist novel.

This is not a "propulsive novel about a heist gone wrong." It's well-written, but the marketing blurb is misleading. The book is more of a meditation on life in wild country and the relationship between 2 brothers. Poetic narrative, but the story just meanders.

Hard-Scrabble Living on Yellowstone’s Edge

This is a bleak story of two brothers from a dysfunctional family trying to eke out a living on their mother’s homestead on the Montana border of Yellowstone National Park. After resorting to desperate, illegal ventures involving poaching and shed antler theft, injury and addiction to pain medication mark further decline of the brothers leading to ominous interaction with their armed, kilt-wearing buyer. A more upbeat-ending brings this relatively short novel to an end. I had hoped for more based on the NYT review.