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Trouble No Man: A Novel Kindle Edition

by Brian Hart (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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American War meets Into the Wild in Brian Hart’s epic saga of one man’s struggle to survive a hostile world—tracing his path from a self-destructive, skateboarding youth in the 90s to the near future as he journeys across a desolate, militia-controlled American West to find his missing family—perfect for fans of Edan Lepuki and Cormac McCarthy.

In the America of a near future, northern California and the Pacific Northwest have become a desolate wasteland controlled by violent separatist militias and marked by a lack of water and fuel. In a village outside Reno, a middle-aged man visits an undertaker and gathers the ashes of his dead wife to bring to Alaska. There, their children await them—refugees from the destruction of the south. To reach his only remaining family, the man must cross the treacherous, violent landscape north by bike, his dog his only companion.

Thirty years earlier, we meet Roy Bingham. After a rough-and-tumble childhood, Roy is numbing himself with skateboarding, drugs, and sex, when he meets Karen. Sassy, soulful, and arresting, Karen pulls Roy into her orbit until she decides to give up their nomadic lifestyle to put down roots in her hometown of Loyalton, California. Roy’s fidelity buckles under the commitment and after a boozy night in Reno he leaves Karen for the road and skateboarding.

Flashing back and forth in time across four decades in the life of a man who is lost even when he’s found, Trouble No Man delivers a resonant story of survival, violence, and family, set against the tumult of an America on the precipice of becoming an unfree nation.

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Dystopian thrillers can be conversational gold in book-group settings, and this one offers story-driving humanity that refuses to take a back seat to the well-crafted neo-western setting.

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In the America of the near future, California has become a desolate wasteland controlled by violent separatist militias and marked by a lack of water and fuel. In a village outside Reno, Nevada, a middle-aged man visits an undertaker and gathers the ashes of his dead wife to bring to Alaska, where their children await. To reach them, the man must go north by bike across a treacherous, violent landscape, his dog his only companion.

Thirty years earlier, we meet Roy Bingham. After a rough-and-tumble childhood, Roy numbs himself with skateboarding, drugs, and sex. Then he meets Karen Oronski. Sassy, soulful, and arresting, Karen pulls Roy into her orbit until she decides to give up their nomadic lifestyle and put down roots in her hometown of Loyalton, California. Roy buckles under the commitment, and after a boozy night in Reno, he leaves Karen for the road and skateboarding.

Flashing back and forth in time across four decades in the life of a man who is lost even when he’s found, Trouble No Man delivers a resonant story of survival and family, set against the tumult of an America on the precipice of becoming an unfree nation.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B071GKVDVM
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Perennial (January 29, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 29, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2348 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 483 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Brian Hart was born in central Idaho in 1976. He received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in 2008. He currently lives in Austin, TX with his wife and daughter. The Bully of Order is his second novel.

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DS
5.0 out of 5 stars A timely and riveting novel
Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2019
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Most readers have particular genres or authors to whom they return, for the excellence in writing and for a compelling narrative. My preferences are generally for historical fiction or narrative non-fiction. I infrequently read dystopian literature and when I do, I gravitate toward certain authors - Margaret Atwood, George Orwell, Cormac McCarthy.

In Trouble No Man by Brian Hart, I jumped genres and found a novel that combined my concerns for our future with my love of exceptional writing. I was propelled into the near future, the very-near-future in the company of powerfully drawn characters and situations. The narrative design of the novel allows the reader to move across time with the characters, with the full realization of the trajectory that they must follow. Hart is far more than an observer, a reporter of life. His writing is experiential, in the best sense, built on details so precise that the reader is able to enter new worlds. I have never gutted an animal, or been a skater, or even handled a gun. I have only recently had to consider what I would and would not do in order to survive in a world that seems damned and doomed. Roy Bingham is a powerful dimensional character and his relationships with Karen, Wiley, Sarah, Jerzy, and Miller reveal what humanity looks like at its worst and at its best, in a world with no easy choices. This is a novel that will linger in your mind.
Highly recommended.
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Barb P.
4.0 out of 5 stars Trouble No Man (a novel)
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2019
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Trouble No Man is a complicated novel. It took a bit to get involved with the characters in the book but as I moved along in the story, I became engrossed and couldn't put the book down. A very compelling story.
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Delta James
5.0 out of 5 stars couldn't put it down because it just might happen
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2019
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This was my favorite read of the year. It took me a couple of chapters to find the rhythm, but once I got it, the story line revealed just how frighteningly possible it all is. If you know the Pacific Northwest, the tale unfolds in familiar places, culture and musical references. It is a story of desperation, courage, persistence, love and one amazing dog. I couldn't put it down!
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dharmabum007
3.0 out of 5 stars Bit of a knockoff of The Road
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2019
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Good read, but somewhat of a post-apocalyptic knockoff of Carmack McCarthy's The Road.
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J. P. Reese
5.0 out of 5 stars A gripping portrayal of one man’s growth in the face of dissolution
Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2020
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This was an exceptional book. The evolution of the main characters was realistic and the erosion of society all too realistic. You can feel the weary ness and pain. He is an author to follow.
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ConstantReader
5.0 out of 5 stars A very entertaining read.
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2020
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An entertaining read. Parts of it may even be a tad prophetic.
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ehoward29
4.0 out of 5 stars A man survives in a harsh world and by doing so, discovers what kind of person he really is.
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2019
TROUBLE NO MAN, by Brian Hart, is an emotional rollercoaster that follows Roy Bingham at four different points in his life over forty years. Spanning from the 1990's through a near future where militia control dominates the land, the reader experiences love, hate, betrayal, hope, desperation, addiction, and pure animalistic survival.
Roy Bingham made some bad choices early is his adult life, a lot of bad choices, but as he has grown older, he has learned to savor the life he has and hold onto the love and happiness he finds in his family. By having faults and then learning and growing from them, the reader connects to Roy and yearns for him to succeed in life. The backdrop of an increased militia presence in California, where most of the story is set, provides a haunting presence throughout the book, as if at any moment 0ne of the militia groups will upend the Bingham's lives. While the focus of the story is Roy, the author Hart does a good job of developing the supporting characters, like Roy's companion, Karen, and his neighbor later in life, Mr. Miller. I did struggle a little with Hart's style of describing many of the action sequences. I will freely acknowledge that I might be alone in this, but I had to often reread the action sequences to understand what happened, it was as if Hart left some details out and the reader was supposed to fill in the blanks. Also, some of the skater terminology was lost on me, I had to stop and look some of it up.
Overall, TROUBLE NO MAN, is a compelling book about a man finding himself and the struggling to keep what he has figured out is important to him. Anyone who enjoys reading about the struggle to survive and following characters who search for what is most important to them will enjoy this book.
I received this book as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program.
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muddyboy1
3.0 out of 5 stars Unlikable characters
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2019
A novel of the future when some parts of the American government particularly the west coast states has broken down,. The book follows the protagonist (Roy) at 25,35. 45 and 55. Roy and the people in his orbit seem to live goalless lives with lots of skateboarding and motorcycle riding. The problem for me is that I really don't like any of the characters. He does have a love interest Karen but I get little feeling any sincere love and affection. He also has two daughters.This novel might be enjoyed by some but it is not my cup of tea.
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