From the great Tim Sandlin comes Rowdy in Paris, the comic novel Larry McMurtry hails as "a delight: lively, freewheeling, surprising, vivid. And funny."
When Rowdy Talbot loses his silver belt buckle—the prize for winning the Crockett County bull-riding championship—to two Frenchwomen he met in a bar, he hops on a plane to the City of Light to get it back, only to tangle with disaffected French revolutionaries, a turquoise-peddling CIA operative, a middle-aged courtesan, and a plot to destroy an American fast-food franchise. As Rowdy discovers in the chaos, there's a whole other world beyond the back of a bull.
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About the Author:
Tim Sandlin is the author of the GroVont trilogy—Skipped Parts, Sorrow Floats, and Social Blunders—as well as Western Swing, Sex and Sunsets, and Honey Don't. He is also the author of a collection of columns from the Jackson Hole News called The Pyms: Unauthorized Tales of Jackson Hole.
Review:
“If you read only one book this year about a sawed-off bull rider looking for a stolen buckle...make it this one.”—Sarah Bird, author of Weightless
“You read it as though your life depends upon it... You laugh until your stomach aches. It’s truly that funny...It’s Sandlin at his best.”—Mark Spragg, author of The Fruit of the Stone
“You might split your gut laughing.”—Library Journal
“There’s at least a laugh a page.”—W. P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe
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- PublisherRiverhead Trade
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1594483523
- ISBN 13 9781594483523
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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