In its majestic evocation of landscapes it bears a resemblance to Blood Meridian, but in the meditative precision of its language and the moral compass that spins at its heart, Diaz's novel is a creature all its own, and it's one of the very few works of fiction that transport you, emotionally and imaginatively, to an utterly new place. "Diaz cleverly updates an old-fashioned yarn, and his novel is rife with exquisite moments." -Publishers Weekly, boxed and starred review "As Diaz, who delights in playful language, lists, and stream-of-consciousness prose, reconstructs adventures, he evokes the multicultural nature of westward expansion, in which immigrants did the bulk of the hard labor and suffered the gravest dangers.an ambitious and thoroughly realized work of revisionist historical fiction." -Kirkus "In the Distance is a singular and haunting novel, an epic journey into the wilderness of nineteenth-century America and into the depths of solitude.
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