The wild is a heartbeat away inside each of us. That’s as true for a commuter who sees a coyote on the way to work as it is for the hunter who sees one from a tree stand in the woods.
L.W. Oakley knows the wild in both places, and he has taken readers there in his successful first book, Inside the Wild. Readers come back from Oakley’s stories with the wild they have discovered inside themselves.
Inside the Wild 2 contains thirty— five new stories written in the tradition of William Faulkner’s Big Woods: The Hunting Stories. Oakley’s true-life stories go beyond the blood and guts of hunting and make people ponder their own lives and eventual deaths.
The big woods and the wild animals living there seem to speak to the reader through Oakley’s written words and profound voice.
The author’s vivid storytelling, poetic writing, and prophetic style make this book an absorbing read.
