When an award he has won at a rodeo competition is stolen by a pair of young French women, old-school cowboy Rowdy Talbot travels to Paris to retrieve it, triggering an unexpected culture clash involving disaffected French revolutionaries, a CIA operative, and a middle-aged courtesan.
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About the Author:
Tim Sandlin is the author of several novels, including Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty and Skipped Parts, a New York Times Notable Book.
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 Hardcover
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1594489742
- ISBN 13 9781594489747
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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