The Last Crossing : A Novel

Rating:
Summary: ... following Sergio Leone
Review: This is an excellent depiction of what we imagine life to be in the North American wilderness in the last part of the XIXth century, without the airbrush effects that plagues this sort of epic.
The author, building on previous successes (notably The Englishman's boy), wants us to stay with his book far too long. Some of the "stories within the story" may be interesting but add nothing to the action nor to the understanding of the characters.
Some of the characters are not sufficiently developed for the reader to know them well: perhaps it would have been better to not try to insert them in the story.
But all in all it is a very good and fascinating book.

Rating:
Summary: The book that never ends
Review: What a struggle to get through this book. I thot it would never end. With all due respect to the author, having read many a fiction and non fiction book about the area in question, Mostly NW Montana, I found this book a most uninteresting, and poorly written novel about both the area and the subject. The writing style was disjointed, the sideline stories were to long and made no realy sense as far as tying in the plot of the book. This book had potential but never made the grade.