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An Amazon Best Book of July 2017: Where does the Western go from here? Larry McMurtry might have perfected the genre in its classic form with Lonesome Dove, while Cormac McCarthy scraped away it romantic veer in favor of a hyper violent, often depraved, interpretation of America’s westward colonization. More recently, Patrick deWitt’s picked up on the Deadwood vibe with The Sisters Brothers, a darkly funny tale of psychotic brothers on a peripatetic, murderous rampage, while Philipp Meyer brilliantly bridged the gap between the old and new Wests with his Texas family saga, The Son. (I just realized I’ve read a few more Westerns than I knew.)
So what’s left to do? Ian Stansel found an angle with The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo. The novel opens with the killing of Frank Van Loy by his younger brother, Silas, the culmination of a lifelong Cain and Abel relationship between the principals of a successful horse training outfit. Silas lights out for the hills, with Frank’s widow, Lena, it hot pursuit, and their alternating points of view provide the framework of the story. Lost Cowboys is described as a “contemporary Western,” which is apt, but incomplete. Its setting is Northern California in the age of iPhones, and as the title indicates, a sense of a lost (or at least dying) way of life pervades the book. But the chase, for the most part, finds a wilder, anachronistic path through the exurbs of modern Marin County. The occasional intersections with the modern world are jarring for the way they amplify the dissonance, especially in the thoughts and actions of the characters, making an interesting, effective experiment, while a sub-200 page count keeps the action moving (another genre deviation which would have Zane Gray nodding in approval). The Last Cowboys of San Geronimoproves there’s life in this old horse, after all. --Jon Foro, The Amazon Book Review"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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