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Cottonwood Publishing, Inc., is proud and
excited to announce the first western novel by Stan Lynde.
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Stan Lynde's critically acclaimed novel,
The
Bodacious Kid, is set in
the closing months of 1882 in (the fictional)
Progress County, Montana Territory. With humor,
suspense, and authentic frontier atmosphere gained
through a lifetime of living, researching, and
depicting the West, Lynde tells a story of
adventure, greed, and romance as Merlin Fanshaw,
alias The Bodacious Kid, finds himself caught
between the competing agendas of a ruthless outlaw,
two very different lawmen, and one pretty
girl.
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But
The
Bodacious Kid is more than
just a fast-moving adventure tale of gold, greed,
and gunfire. Within its pages and beneath the
sweeping movement of its plot lies a deft and
subtle examination of such timeless topics as
character, morality, and the place of individual
conscience in the life of its protagonist, and in
the lives of us all.
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Those who are familiar with Stan Lynde's work on
his two nationally syndicated cartoon strips will rejoice at
his entry into the field of the western novel. So will
readers who are discovering his work for the first time.
Check in with us again soon. Stan is on the last
2 chapters of his second novel "Careless Creek" and rumor is
its more hair raising, suspense building and chock full of
surprises than this one.
From The Bodacious Kid, Chapter 18:
Pa was always a great one at finding
lessons for living in ordinary happenings, and of course
he found one that time. He said, "Merlin, there will be
times in your life when you'll lose your way and be
temporarily confused, just like we was down yonder in
that canyon. You'll be too closed in by timber and
shadows to see your way clear, and you won't know where
or who you are. "When those times come, think back to now
and get some distance in your mind. Find yourself a place
where you can see the whole picture and look for
landmarks, so to speak, and you'll know what you need to
do and how to get home."
That was about as flowery as my Pa ever
talked. Now I have to tell you that not all of his
teachings worked out, or even made sense. Sometimes Pa
would say things he didn't really believe himself just
because they sounded good, or because he'd read them in a
book somewhere. One time he told me that if you caught a
skunk by the tail and lifted his hind feet off the ground
he couldn't spray you, and you was safe at least `til you
put him down again. When I asked if he'd ever tried it
himself he grinned and said, "Hell, no. I ain't that
crazy!"
Some advance reviews on The Bodacious Kid:
"His great notions
and his bold narrative gifts have all along seemed to
strain at the boxy confines of the comic-strip idiom
where he first established himself as a storyteller, and
at last Stan Lynde has burst forth as a Western novelist
of a high order. The Bodacious Kid is what John Ford
would have called "a cracking good yarn," with enough
hair's-breadth suspense, tangled destinies, surprising
loyalties and astonishing betrayals - to say nothing of
its frontier naturalism and rambunctious good humor - to
suit the most demanding devotee of adventurous
fiction."
- Michael H. Price
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/New York Times News Service
"When it comes to
the `Old West', Stan is arguably one of our `All Time
Best' visual storytellers. No one has ever captured the
character of the west... or created more authentic or
memorable western characters...than Stan. Characters that
have become American icons.
In The Bodacious Kid,
Stan has shown he can capture--with words-what he so
often captured in his art. The Bodacious Kid is a truly
fine `First Novel.'"
-Laurence Delaney
Author of the Best Sellers - Blood Red Wine and the Triton
Ultimatum
The book is 256 pages, hardcover, and
includes six Stan Lynde illustrations.
$24.95
Plus $4.00 S&H
ISBN # is 1-886370-10-9
Our stock # is BK-71
Autographed
Books
Add $1.00 per book or $2.00 per set.
Specify "Autographed" when you order.
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Press or call
1-800-234-5308
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