When he comes home, she shoots him with a rifle and buries him in the mud. When their child dies and he tells her that she can just have another one, she goes mad. Their brief marriage is an unhappy one she fails to please him, and he alternately ignores her for long periods and berates her for being useless. He takes her out West to where he has acreage, gambles away most of the money, and takes mistresses on the side. She marries the first man who will have her, John. She had been a disagreeable child, beautiful but lacking the female graces her grandmother wanted her to display. Her father was a grieving widower, a lawyer, and a minister without faith. Throughout the novel, Mary remembers her childhood and her marriage. The central theme of the novel is wilderness: physical wilderness, social wilderness, and the wilderness of insanity. The story is about Mary Boulton, a young woman who murders her callous husband and goes on the run in the wilds of Canada, pursued by her ruthless brothers-in-law and tormented by her own unhappy memories and madness. Written by Canadian poet Gil Adamson, the novel won multiple awards, including the Hammett Prize, ReLit Award for Best Novel, and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. The Outlander (2007) is a western/historical crime novel.
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