"A masterpiece. . . . An unforgettable character . . . who proceeds to take you on a roller-coaster ride through his tawdrily tumultuous life." -Chicago Tribune At the age of fifty-seven-living a life riddled with ex-wives, one night stands, and daily diet of Jack Daniels-Bad Blake is on his last legs. His ticker, his liver, even his pick-up truck are all giving him trouble. A renowned songwriter and "picker" who hasn’t recorded in five years, Bad now travels the countryside on gigs that take him mostly to motels and bowling alleys. Enter Jean Craddock, a young journalist sent to interview him after a beautiful concert, and a tentative romance blooms. Can Bad stop living the life of a country-western song and tie a rope around his crazy heart?"A measure of Thomas Cobb’s talent is that he can make Bad Blake’s story amusing even as we watch him fall." -New York Times Book Review"[Cobb’s] picture of the scraggly underside of Western music is brutally convincing." -The New Yorker"Crazy Heart just might be the finest country-western novel ever written, bar none." -Houston Post"[A] moving, respectful evocation of the world of country music." -Boston Herald"Thomas Cobb’s marvelous first novel doesn’t just play on your heartstrings, it breaks them." -San Francisco Examiner"A piercing, keenly observed chronicle of modern Americana." -Los Angeles Times"Heartfelt." -Houston Chronicle"A beautiful book. . . . Bad Blake is a man you will not soon forget." -Washington Times
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