{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Traces decades in the lives of a post-Civil War Oklahoma family that includes such members as a psychopathic killer, a group of cruel brothers, an impassive ex-slave, a dangerous child prodigy and a pathologically deviant patriarch.\n\nAfter their actions during the Civil War lead to a courtmartial, a group of hardened Union soldiers recasts themselves as outlaws, and find that the disorder of Reconstruction allows for all sort of savage freedom. The psychopathic killer Quentin Ross; the mean and moronic Empire brothers; the impassive ex-slave Fred Johnson; dangerous child prodigy Lukas Shakespeare-- but the malevolent center of this 'family' is their cold, hardened leader, Augustus Winter, a man with an almost pathological resistance to the rules of society and a preternatural gift for butchery."}, "covers": [10533694], "key": "/works/OL17843149W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL7409072A"}}], "title": "The Winter family", "subjects": ["Outlaws", "Fiction", "Fiction, westerns", "Fiction, historical", "Large type books", "Fiction, historical, general"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2018-02-23T04:37:35.625190"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2021-10-08T23:07:53.611618"}}