‘In the Somme Valley a British soldier teaches his fellows to hide cigarette coals inside their mouths. Half a world away, a war-ruined photographer drinks in a bar beneath a Colorado butchery, blood dripping from the floorboards into ashtrays. Gutierrez writes with a metaphorical gift and fine hand of an age of war and upheaval where anarchists, coal barons, Pinkertons, corrupt police, broken idealists, and broken families fight to claim history’s muddied field. . . . The Trench Angel announces a great new talent set to shine for a long time.’—Alexander Parsons, Leaving Disneyland
‘Breathes new, vivid life into the old wild west.’—Mat Johnson, Pym
‘Gutierrez’s splendid debut bypasses the archives, whisking us straightaway into the seedy saloons, the twisting back alleys, and the trenches. . . . Like Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams, this potent, lyrical novel unspools beyond its own time and lands squarely, unforgettably in our own.’—Tim Horvath, Understories
Colorado, 1919. Photographer Neal Stephens, home from the War, is blackmailed by the sheriff over his secret marriage to a black woman in France. When the sheriff is murdered, Neal’s investigation calls up memories of the trenches and his search for his dead wife, as he untangles the connections among the murder, the coalminers’ strike, and his mysterious anarchist father.
Michael Gutierrez , MFA (fiction) and MA (history), teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill, and has published in many literary journals. The Trench Angel was a finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship.
Sobre o autor
Originally from Los Angeles, Michael Gutierrez holds an MFA in fiction from the University of New Hampshire and an MA in history from the University of Massachusetts. His work has been published in Scarab, The Pisgah Review, Untoward, The Boiler, Crossborder, and LA Weekly. The Trench Angel was a finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship. He resides with his wife in Chapel Hill, where teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Awards:
The Austin Film Festival, Featured Screenplay (Drama), Semi-finalist, 2014.
The Austin Film Festival, AMC One-Hour Pilot Award, Finalist, 2013.
The James Jones First Novel Fellowship, Finalist
New York Public Library Research Fellowship, New York Public Library, 2011-2012. This award ($2500) is provided for research on a novel.
The Tusculum Review, Short Story Contest, Finalist, 2009.
Harpur Palate, John Gardner Fiction Prize, Finalist, 2009.
Pushcart Prize, Nominee, 2009
Best New American Voices, Nominee, 2006, 2008.
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