About the Book
An outrageous outdoor adventure heightened by ribald humor, violence, sex, pitch-perfect dialogue, unforgettably eccentric characters, and a riveting plot.
About the Author :
ROBERT F. JONES was the author of eight novels and six works of nonfiction. His work regularly appeared in Sports Afield, Men's Journal, Outdoor Life, Big Sky Journal, Audubon, Time, Sports Illustrated, Life, People, Harper's, Fly Rod & Reel, The New York Times, and Shooting Sportsman.
Review :
"THE RUN is a stunner, a remarkable tale of high adventure in a style so readable and fun that I couldn't put it down."--Elmore Leonard
"The Run to Gitche Gumee is vintage Robert F. Jones--a rollicking, politically incorrect, testosterone-laden adventure tale. First it's a story of the swaggering immortality of youth, tempered finally by the horrors of war and by the inexorable passing of the seasons. Then it's a story of the retrospection of old age, of recapturing old friendships, old rhythms, through the timeless twin solaces of fishing and hunting. Throughout it is infused with Jones's particular erudition, his specific knowledge of history and natural history, and of exactly how things work. This is wonderful novel--rich, colorful, funny, and poignant."
--James Fergus, author of 1,000 White Women
"In the tradition of Ernest Hemingway's finest stories, Robert F. Jones' The Run to Gitche Gumee is a wonderfully human and readable novel about war, wilderness, friendship, and growing older. From the wilds of northern Wisconsin, to behind enemy lines in war-torn Korea, The Run to Gitche Gumee is the best novel to date by America's best writer of high-action literary fiction." --Howard Frank Mosher, author of A Stranger in the Kingdom
"The Run to Gitche Gumee is a tough, funny, moving tale that fairly hums with Jones' enormous love of life, and love and knowledge of the outdoors; it is a wild and vivid ride to the place we are all on a run to." --Charles Gaines, author of A Family Place
"Jones has crafted an fast-moving novel that rides the swirling currents of his own delightful, madcap imagination. Gitche Gumee is a novel of life and adventure, wry humor and grim truth by America's best outdoor action writer." -- John Holt, author of Coyote Nowhere
"A well-told, wildly plotted tale that is rich with Jones' knowledge of how life outdoors keeps some souls alive even when the going is rougher than they planned." --" Gray's Sporting
"A well-told, wildly plotted tale that is rich with Jones' knowledge of how life outdoors keeps some souls alive even when the going is rougher than they planned."--"Gray's Sporting Journal "
In Praise of the author:
Blood Sport (1974, Simon & Schuster)
"So iridescent a work of imagination that one marvels at the talent that created it, hopes for its health and safety and feels a command to urge others to share its discovery... It's a silver bullet of joy, sadness and hope." --"Washington Post Book World
"Brilliant. There's nothing like it in recent fiction. It reads like Henry Miller writing for an outdoor magazine." -- Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall
"It's entertainment impossible to put down... the most outrageous of stories... a wry paean to unspoiled nature and the outlaw life where everything from sex to food is for the taking, where killing is casual and macho is exalted as the ultimate end..."--"Newsday
"A work of free imagination." -- "Chicago Tribune Book World
"The author has created that great rarity - a new American myth... It produces in your mind the same edgy excitement as if entering wild country... and it works! Jones has also written a good boots-in-the-mud hunting story whose textures are as natural to the
touch as the worn stock of an old rifle." --"Time
"An exciting, heady mixture set in an extraordinary landscape composed of the Neolithic Age as much as modern America, with equal parts of myth, racial memory, fantasy, the distant future and the gothic fog of nightmare. The book takes wild chances and
succeeds." --"San Francisco Chronicle
"The reader should never lose sight of the fact that he's in the company of an uncommonly gifted writer." --"New York Times Book Review
The Diamond Bogo (1977, Prentice Hall)
"Jones has created a rich and sharply idiosyncratic picture of Africa and the men whowant to conquer a corner of it before it is Westernized to death. But this is also a parody - loving, surreal and elfin - of all those tales of manly compulsion... Africa is Paradise Losing and he knows it intimately... A wildly funny, one-sided morality tale." --"The Los Angeles Times
"A gem of an adventure." --"The Milwaukee Journal
"A straightforward African hunting novel in plot, but with a mixture of absolute dark realism and tongue-in-cheek comedy that as far as I know is unique... a novel that mixes the best of the old with a kind of craziness that, for me at least, makes it twice as vivid and even more real... He's the first writer to say much that is new about Africa since Hemingway."--"Gray's Sporting Journal
Slade's Glacier (1981, Simon & Schuster)
"Stunning... As powerful and evocative a book about Alaska - fiction or non-fiction - as has been published. The state's awesome beauty and wildness come vividly alive... Can justly be compared to Jack London at his finest."--"Publishers Weekly
"Wild and vivid... You feel the cold and taste the bear steaks... Jones has uncommon descriptive powers." --"Washington Post Book World
"Spectacular... Wildly eventful... A novel of all the sense, all the emotions, with the needle at the high end of the dial."--"Los Angeles Times
"Rawboned... Tracks the elemental grandeur of Alaska through a compelling, hard-hitting story... This is Jones's best novel so far." --"Time
"Alaska... so brutal and beautiful... comes vividly to life. Jones adds an element of magic that gives the book an extra, enchanting dimension." -"-People
Blood Tide (1990, Atlantic Monthly Press)
"This book is a winner. Robert F. Jones canreally write, and the most puzzling thing to me is that his name isn't already a household word. Blood Tide is the best high-adventure escape I've taken in years."--Elmore Leonard
"Suffice it to say that there is never a dull moment in Blood Tide... Mr. Jones is a superior writer who can turn a telling phrase and who has a pronounced streak of poetry. His characters, too, are beautifully developed." -"-The New York Times Book Review
"A post-Vietnam, post-feminist swashbuckler, this novel is full of diverting derring-do, high-seas heroes (and a heroine) and lowlife scoundrels... Adventure fans may find this novel a particularly nice change of pace if they've been weathering the Ludlum or Clancy schools of high-tech, high-density fiction." --"People
"Up-to-date swashbuckler. Swords in teeth, wind in sails, and it all works. Great fun." --"Kirkus Reviews
"A masterful adventure."--"Publishers Weekly
"A consistently entertaining tale of drugs, piracy and revenge... Despite the high-caliber, big-bang finish, this novel is mainly memorable because of its steel-eyed characterizations."
--"Booklist
"Behind the adventure yarn, written as tightly as a cork fits a bottle, lurks an amused intelligence, a sly and funny savant with a head full of lore and a taste for wicked games." -- Annie Proulx
[In the New York Times Book Review of 12/2/90, BloodTide led a list of eight novels cited in its Spies & Thrillers category as "Notable Books of the Year."]
Tie My Bones to Her Back (1996, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
"Exciting, fascinating, beautifully written." -- Elmore Leonard
"TIE MY BONES TO HER BACK is a vivid, hardnosed look at the most tumultuous time in thehistory of the American West. Jones gleans incidents from that history and incorporates them into a novel of stark initiation. Readers will be reminded of Cormac
McCarthy and John Williams and will not be disappointed."-- Dan O'Brien
"I'm captivated by his hard but musical prose, and a story that is pure American Gothic - the dark side of our central national myth, the conquest of the West." -- Philip Caputo
"Elemental storytelling, populated by richly drawn characters and propelled by language that has the force and accuracy of a Cheyenne warrior's arrowhead."--"Publishers Weekly
"Never a sentimentalist, Mr. Jones squarely faces the violence in his characters. He portrays the thrill of the hunt, animal or human, with a lyricism that is often unnerving and a realism that belies the glamour of conquest and adventure."--"New York Times Book Review
Deadville (1998, St. Martin's Press)
"Full of mountain lore and gore, memorable characters, stunning scenery and everyday Western life, this engrossing thriller is up to Jones's usual high standards."--"Publishers Weekly
"Jones can justly be compared to Jack London at his finest."--"Publishers Weekly
