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# Slow Bear

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desertcart.com: Slow Bear: 9781912526673: Smith, Anthony Neil: Books

Review: Read It! - Anthony Neil Smith’s latest addition to American literary mayhem comes at a slower but no less deadly pace. This odyssey of crime is set in the fracking, oil fields of North Dakota and although no date is given, one assumes it must not be the dead of winter as people still exist above ground. Our man Micah “Slow Bear” Cross is an ex-reservation cop whose biggest break in life so far is having his left arm blown off by Great Plains psycho before he was kicked off the force or shot justifiably by any number of people. All Micah had to do was stay a wretch, unworthy of life, and he could have scuttled on forever. Sadly, Slow Bear screwed up and begin to care and everyone knows there’s no quicker path to the grave. This slim volume is dedicated to Jim Crumley and Jim Harrison, “who write this $%^# better than I ever will.” Maybe so, but Smith gives it a good go. And if the book seems to wander a bit between bloody moments, this may be due North Dakota’s climate delivering each day a good measure of soul and body crippling suffering before it finishes the job fully and finally.
Review: Slow Bear is dope. Adapt it for TV already!!! - This some dark, hilarious, real-ass crime fic. No cheesy sentiments or faux machismo. Anthony Neil Smith ain't tryna rewrite Middlemarch here. Slow Bear the protagonist reminds me a lot of Willeford's Hoke Mosely, at once depressing and likeable, all too human, never aspirational. Books like this shed more on the modern human condition than all Franzen novels combined. Also, it gives the reader a great sense of place--the oil boom-and-bust towns in North Dakota. Slow Bear should be adapted into a streaming series, pronto. If there's no one-armed native actor in Hollywood, cgi the arm off of Adam Beach or Zahn McClarnon. Also, the female lead would give a great role for a plus-size actress. Smith deserves a bigger audience. They should sell his books on spinning racks near the checkout line at Home Depot.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #5,941,792 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #10,770 in Organized Crime Thrillers #11,568 in Hard-Boiled Mystery #2,037,271 in Literature & Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (25) |
| Dimensions  | 5 x 0.34 x 8 inches |
| ISBN-10  | 1912526670 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1912526673 |
| Item Weight  | 7.2 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 134 pages |
| Publication date  | January 21, 2020 |
| Publisher  | Fahrenheit Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Read It!
*by C***N on January 12, 2021*

Anthony Neil Smith’s latest addition to American literary mayhem comes at a slower but no less deadly pace. This odyssey of crime is set in the fracking, oil fields of North Dakota and although no date is given, one assumes it must not be the dead of winter as people still exist above ground. Our man Micah “Slow Bear” Cross is an ex-reservation cop whose biggest break in life so far is having his left arm blown off by Great Plains psycho before he was kicked off the force or shot justifiably by any number of people. All Micah had to do was stay a wretch, unworthy of life, and he could have scuttled on forever. Sadly, Slow Bear screwed up and begin to care and everyone knows there’s no quicker path to the grave. This slim volume is dedicated to Jim Crumley and Jim Harrison, “who write this $%^# better than I ever will.” Maybe so, but Smith gives it a good go. And if the book seems to wander a bit between bloody moments, this may be due North Dakota’s climate delivering each day a good measure of soul and body crippling suffering before it finishes the job fully and finally.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Slow Bear is dope. Adapt it for TV already!!!
*by C***T on June 25, 2022*

This some dark, hilarious, real-ass crime fic. No cheesy sentiments or faux machismo. Anthony Neil Smith ain't tryna rewrite Middlemarch here. Slow Bear the protagonist reminds me a lot of Willeford's Hoke Mosely, at once depressing and likeable, all too human, never aspirational. Books like this shed more on the modern human condition than all Franzen novels combined. Also, it gives the reader a great sense of place--the oil boom-and-bust towns in North Dakota. Slow Bear should be adapted into a streaming series, pronto. If there's no one-armed native actor in Hollywood, cgi the arm off of Adam Beach or Zahn McClarnon. Also, the female lead would give a great role for a plus-size actress. Smith deserves a bigger audience. They should sell his books on spinning racks near the checkout line at Home Depot.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Grab this if you like your fiction dark and bitter.
*by M***Z on February 7, 2023*

Anthony Neil Smith is a great noir writer, and this is noir at its most basic and brutal - complete with a flawed protagonist (damaged inside and out) going up against insurmountable odds, and simply doing his best to do right by one person. There is no sense of winning in this book, and no sense of anything that might be considered "fair" or "right". That said, one can't help but cheer on Slow Bear, a one-armed ex-rez cop and former heroin junkie, as he tries to navigate waters way more murky and deep than he ever realized. Some of the characters (Manfred, et al) do feel like they stepped out of central casting, but that's okay to. It reads familiar. I don't know that any one who reads noir or crime on the regular will be terribly surprised by the plot, but that's less important than the voice of the character and overall setting.

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