Unbridled Books publishes modern classics, books to savor, re-read, and keep. The press was founded by Greg Michalson and Fred Ramey, who have worked together since the early 1990's and who consider their publishing as an extended conversation about what makes a great book great. Unbridled stands for everything that is best about publishing in this current cultural and economic climate: vision, a commitment to nurturing authors' careers, extraordinary stories and personal narratives told in exceptional prose, and the exquisite packaging that makes each book a treasure to hold.
John Addiego
Tears of the Mountain
A wise and playful novel about America’s pioneer roots, westward expansion, manifest destiny, and how inextricably the past connects to the future.
Tasting Notes: Big on tradition and filled with the sweetest sort of American risk and reward, this one is steeped in history and the celebration of human independence, vintage 1876. Settle into this one with something explosive out of California—maybe the honeysuckle air and apple persistence of a good Sonoma County Fumé Blanc at a late summer picnic when there’s more than one memory at work.
Joyce Hinnefeld
Stranger Here Below
This is Hinnefeld’s second novel, and readers of her first, In Hovering Flight, should be happy to return to this rich story about the travails of women in the struggle to stay connected to one another across every boundary during one of the most difficult eras of the American experience—1908–1968.
Tasting Notes: It’s a feast and an affirmation, a feminine gathering made possible through more than the usual family ties. At once tender-crisp and consistently savory, this offering presents us with the simplest pleasures and best motives, even as they sprout from the recent shade like true Kentucky morels. What lingers at the end of this Shaker fare is a bittersweet alliance, the friendly taste of perfect country balance.
David Bajo
Panopticon
Public surveillance of even their most intimate moments reaches too deeply into the lives of three reporters in the California borderlands.
Tasting Notes: Replete with the aromas of smoke and clay, it displays first a silky texture followed by hints of ash and tar, and then by what one might best describe as voluptuous sinew. Shadowy throughout, it flexes like a Luchador and then lingers just long enough to open the nose, reminding one of an Edwidge Fenech movie. Best enjoyed over a long clacking night, in a southbound club car with a bottle of El Tesoro tequila reposado in arm’s reach.
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