Epitaph Epitaph

Epitaph

    • 5.0 • 5 Ratings
    • $24.99

    • $24.99

Publisher Description

Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph. An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the story she began in Doc, following Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

A deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan media. A president loathed by half the populace. Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border. Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into their own hands. . . . 

That was America in 1881.

All those forces came to bear on the afternoon of October 26 when Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers faced off against the Clantons and the McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona. It should have been a simple misdemeanor arrest. Thirty seconds and thirty bullets later, three officers were wounded and three citizens lay dead in the dirt.

Wyatt Earp was the last man standing, the only one unscathed. The lies began before the smoke cleared, but the gunfight at the O.K. Corral would soon become central to American beliefs about the Old West.

Epitaph tells Wyatt’s real story, unearthing the Homeric tragedy buried under 130 years of mythology, misrepresentation, and sheer indifference to fact. Epic and intimate, this novel gives voice to the real men and women whose lives were changed forever by those fatal thirty seconds in Tombstone. At its heart is the woman behind the myth: Josephine Sarah Marcus, who loved Wyatt Earp for forty-nine years and who carefully chipped away at the truth until she had crafted the heroic legend that would become the epitaph her husband deserved.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
HH
Hillary Huber
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
19:33
hr min
RELEASED
2015
March 3
PUBLISHER
HarperAudio
SIZE
1
GB

Customer Reviews

zehna78 ,

Epitaph

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. This is the 2nd I’ve read from this author, the first being “Doc”, which was equally as intriguing! I highly recommend both! You can tell she did her research but it’s told in such a compelling storyline way, EXCELLENT read! Compelling, interesting, and entertaining from start to finish. The narrator also does a great job, sometimes I couldn’t believe it was the same person reading due to how well & how easily she fluctuates her voice and tone.

Listeners Also Bought

Doc: A Novel (Unabridged) Doc: A Novel (Unabridged)
2011
The Sympathizer: A Novel (Unabridged) The Sympathizer: A Novel (Unabridged)
2024
A Column of Fire (Unabridged) A Column of Fire (Unabridged)
2017
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: A George Smiley Novel (Unabridged) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: A George Smiley Novel (Unabridged)
2011
The Searcher: A Novel (Unabridged) The Searcher: A Novel (Unabridged)
2020
Red Sparrow (Unabridged) Red Sparrow (Unabridged)
2013