- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Rugged Land (April 8 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1590710088
- ISBN-13: 978-1590710081
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 14.6 x 4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 730 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #830,763 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
This second novel by Jones (The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong) follows Texas Deputy Sheriff Jim Doe in his chase after the Tin Man, a sociopath who has been abducting Indian children in the heartland for a decade. Jones, who is a member of the Blackfeet Nation, infuses this cleverly plotted detective story with Indian lore: the Tin Man enters Indian homes during tornadoes, always kidnapping a pair of children-a brother and sister-bringing to life an old Indian belief that storms sometimes take a malicious human form. As he tracks the Tin Man along dusty Texas highways and small towns across the country, Doe, who is also Indian, must face his own troubled family history, which includes a mother who abandoned his family and a sister who has been missing for nearly 20 years. The book masterfully plays with the serial killer genre, walking a line between convention and invention and delving into the psychology of both killer and detective. The plot is chilling in itself, but Jones's brisk, clean, visceral prose gives the novel its edgy suspense. Even a brief description of a mundane waiting room, for example, becomes unnerving when Jones describes the protagonists having "left the waiting room chairs at odd angles, the television looking down on them at a severe angle. The coins in Jim Doe's pants jingled as they walked. The hall was seventeen years long."
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
As the serial killer genre has grown in popularity, so has the body count. In Robert Bloch's masterpiece, Psycho, we had four victims, including two done in before the novel even begins. Now in this book, we have dozens of victims strewn along an Apian Way of viscera and gore. This sanguine saga is about a morose and languid Texas deputy sheriff, Jim Doe, who helps a team of FBI profilers track down the notorious "Tin Man." For the last 15 years, the killer has been abducting Indian children, including Doe's sister, during tornadoes. Now the Tin Man's activities are on the rise. Doe and the agents follow the killer back and forth from the heartland to the East Coast until you begin to wonder who is tracking who in this murderous old Land of Oz. For those who like their mayhem loaded on thick, this book will be a creepy double pleasure, but those sensitive to mountains of graphic violence, especially when directed toward children, might want to steer clear. David Hellman
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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1.0 out of 5 stars
who kiddin who?,
By jim jiminy (ny, ny) - See all my reviews
This review is from: All the Beautiful Sinners (Hardcover)
ok, so i am somewhat skilled in writing and the use of english as a first language, but this book beat me down. by the third-quarter i gave up and stopped reading. irrelevant is the ending, simply because i did not understand the book from the beginning. while 'ulysses' is not the type of material i enjoy still i made valiant efforts to decipher characters and plot but oh well, guess the butler did it?
5.0 out of 5 stars
All The Beautiful Sinners,
By A Customer
This review is from: All the Beautiful Sinners (Hardcover)
This book challenges the reader to become involved in the story. I am so used to novels that are simply "bubble gum for the mind", that I had to start over about a quarter into the book and actually pay attention. This book is not "dumbed down". It is an adventure. The prose is beautiful. The storyline is complex, amazing and chilling. There are several different storylines that can be gleaned from this book if you choose to do so. I love Jim Doe and hope to read more books with him as a central character. This author has definitely gotten my attention!
3.0 out of 5 stars
Creepy premise with preposterous plot!,
By A Customer
This review is from: All the Beautiful Sinners (Hardcover)
This book was highly praised by some critics but I found it creepy and sometimes preposterous. The "Tin Man" is a serial killer being hunted by FBI and law enforcement officials all over the east coast and midwest. The book is plenty long, but nowhere did I find a means for him to finance these extravagant journeys across the US to snatch Indian children out of the rubble of tornadoes (and he maintained three separate homes!) There is also not enough family background presented in the plot to justify how he turned into such a monster. It was hard to keep the places and victims straight, and besides the protagonist Jim Doe, I really didn't feel I could empathize with many of the characters. It's well-written for the most part, but sometimes the prose was purposefully disjointed.
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