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Book SynopsisThe cult gay classic of the early 1990s, reissued to mark the year of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots
Between nights, earning his keep at Excellent, Idaho's outrageously pink whorehouse, Shed or, Duivichi-un-Dua - lives a life of drinking, talking and smoking opium stardust with his eccentric family. But soon, he will leave this tiny turn-of-the-century town in search of the true meaning of his Shoshone name - and in search of himself.
Along the way Shed will fall in love with the philosophical, green-eyed, half-crazy cowboy Dellwood Barker, a man who talks to the moon, on a journey that will lead Shed to enlightenment and understanding of man's relationship to himself and the natural world.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW McMILLAN, AUTHOR OF PHYSICAL
'A brilliant novel... Flawlessly authentic, beautifully captured' Observer
Trade ReviewA brilliant novel... Flawlessly authentic, beautifully captured * Observer *
Haunting and earthy, a deeply felt tale of love and loss... Tom Spanbauer's wild west is the hurly burly of the mind. He takes us into territories where few of us would ever dare to go * Publishers Weekly *
This brave, original, ribald, funny, heartrending fable about the Old West . . . is a book as bright as it is dark, full of fictional and philosophical pleasures, a quirky, unsettling look at American history and a vision quest in the grand old tradition * Los Angeles Times Book Review *
The miracle of the novel is that it obliges us to rethink our whole idea of narration and history and myth. . . . Spanbauer captures the music of the mind and the body * New York Times Book Review *
