Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral - Softcover

"Well-written and provocative, Doc is a book that will haunt you."--Historical Novels Review

"Epitaph peels back all the layers of the events leading up to and following America's most storied gunfight, in a compelling, richly told narrative with complex characters, sharp context - and a number of parallels to today...a fully realized landscape with nuanced characters."--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"Russell breathes new life into the well-worn western saga of the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday's infamous shoot-out in the Arizona Territory town of Tombstone... a raucously Hogarthian depiction of how the West was truly lived."--Publishers Weekly

"With vast amounts of research and a poetic prose line ... Russell has crafted an epic tale ... a stunning performance."--Washington Post

"A magnificent sequel to Doc that represents a significant advance in her considerable narrative technique... Adroitly shifting points of view throughout, Russell assembles her cast in Tombstone, where her prodigious historical research illuminates the personalities and politics that propelled the combatants toward that corral."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Mary Doria Russell has lifted the participants in the frontier's most famous gunfight out of the realm of genre fiction and catapulted them into the realm of literature."--Dallas Morning News

"An epic retelling of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral that sets the 30-second battle within the broader context of the times."--Washington Post, Notable fiction books of 2015

"This novel tells the story of Wyatt and Sadie Earp from beginning to end, not stopping at the famous gunfight and its aftermath but following the couple to the end of their lives, inevitably shaped by that 1881 blaze of gunfire in Tombstone, Arizona Territory."--Seattle Times, Critics Best Books of 2015

"Whatever it is you think you know about the gunfight at the OK Corral, however it is you think you feel about it, forget it all... Mary Doria Russell has 600 pages to burn a fresh understanding into you, and she uses every one of them."--NPR, Best Books of 2015

Despite all that has been written and filmed about Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp, Russell's pointedly anti-epic anti-romance is so epic and romantic that it whets the reader's appetite for more."--Kirkus Reviews