Plain Crazy in Paradise: A Noir Western Love Song - Paperback

by John Holt (Author)

"Westerners have come in all sorts - ranchers, frontiersmen, gold miners, gunfighters, even singing cowboys. John Holt gives us a poet, lamenting the passing of the West. His character's poems equal the story he tells." - Hollis George, editorial director and anthologist The West has been celebrated with songs, words and photographs for well over 100 years. This novel is about poet John Wesley Gill, who lives in the Sweet Grass Hills, and his struggle to come to grips with the changing West as he also decides to resurrect his writing career through good deeds and very dark ones including murder. The book is a reflection of his travels. Gill's poems define his road experiences and this lyricism is reflected in the narrative that takes him along rough roads that lead to wild, out-of-the-way high plains mayhem and desolate locations.

Author Biography

John Holt is the author of two dozen published books including Blown Away Under the Big Sky, The Lost Patrol, Yellowstone Drift - Floating the Past in Real Time, Arctic Aurora - Canada's Yukon and Northwest Territories, Coyote Nowhere - In Search of America's Last Frontier. His work has appeared in such publications as Men's Journal, Fly Fisherman, High Country News, Crossroads, E - The Environmental Magazine, and Outside Bozeman. He and his wife, photographer Ginny Holt, live in Livingston, Montana.