In this romantic, humorous and harrowing novel, the acclaimed author of Make Believe Love returns to the epic skies and straight roads of Broken Head, Saskatchewan, and takes us into a very modern Western. Sam McMahon can't understand why his banker colleagues in Toronto keep calling him "cowboy," when he prefers opera to C&W and fine wine to beer. Sam's wife is in love with his brother Vern, who has followed the family tradition and works their parents' farm, a mixed cattle and crop operation inherited from his ...
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In this romantic, humorous and harrowing novel, the acclaimed author of Make Believe Love returns to the epic skies and straight roads of Broken Head, Saskatchewan, and takes us into a very modern Western. Sam McMahon can't understand why his banker colleagues in Toronto keep calling him "cowboy," when he prefers opera to C&W and fine wine to beer. Sam's wife is in love with his brother Vern, who has followed the family tradition and works their parents' farm, a mixed cattle and crop operation inherited from his grandfather, Old Sam. When his wife leaves him stranded by the side of a Saskatchewan highway, Sam is rescued by a woman, Ai Lee, in a rented Toyota. Ai is a film location scout who's searching for the perfect cliff for legendary director James Aspen's new film, The Last Cowboy . Thirty years previously, Old Sam dreams of better days in an older West, mending fences, riding horses, raising cattle. To save young Sam, then 10 years old, from what he considers the malaise of the late-20th century, Old Sam drags him off into a blizzard on horseback. His goal is to save a lost cow and her new calf, which may or may not exist. Sam's parents fear he'll only manage to kill his grandson. When, only days later, the old cowboy wanders out of doors without his parka in the freezing cold, muttering about a lost boy, he's rescued by a Native couple out in a "borrowed" car, who run afoul of the police and end up driving into their final sunset. When Ai hears their story from Sam, she thinks she's found her perfect location. The Last Cowboy does much more than update the Western; it weaves together stories and generations and unveils, with beauty and compassion, the leap or fall that awaits us all. So I stretch back in permanent recline and do my best to travel off to a better day, a summer day back fifty years past, a few days after a big rain, so that everything was green except for the cuts in the draws where the runoff had chewed right through the grass. There was a glow to the world back then that has long since been lost. It is painfully elusive, that particular luminescence, but I sit here stubbornly trying to restore the shine of it. I begin with a sky that was as blue as the better skies now, and work my way down to the green, only a breath of a line of white dividing the earth from the heavens. -- from The Last Cowboy
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0676975828. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. DJ has some minor shelf wear.; 8.54 X 5.91 X 1.02 inches.
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New. Hardcover New Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket Sewn binding Cloth over boards 304 p Audience: General/trade Book Description In this romantic, humorous and harrowing novel, the acclaimed author of Make Believe Love returns to the epic skies and straight roads of Broken Head, Saskatchewan, and takes us into a very modern Western Sam McMahon can t understand why his banker colleagues in Toronto keep calling him cowboy, when he prefers opera to C&W and fine wine to beer Sam s wife is in love with his brother Vern, who has followed the family tradition and works their parents farm, a mixed cattle and crop operation inherited from his grandfather, Old Sam When his wife leaves him stranded by the side of a Saskatchewan highway, Sam is rescued by a woman, Ai Lee, in a rented Toyota Ai is a film location scout who s searching for the perfect cliff for legendary director James Aspen s new film, The Last Cowboy Thirty years previously, Old Sam dreams of better days in an older West, mending.
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Near Fine in Near Fine, Not Price Clipped jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) First edition, first printing as evidenced by a complete number line from 1 to 9; signed by Lee Gowan on the title page with no inscription; a solid, clean copy in collectable condition; "Autographed" sticker on front cover; dust jacket is protected by a Brodart sleeve.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0676975828. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Inscribed By Author; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Signed by Author.
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Fine in Fine jacket. As New in As New jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.283 More than update the Western it weaves together stories and generations with beauty and compassion. clean tight unread copy.
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