Passionate, intelligently written, thoroughly entertaining historical fiction. "Kirkus Reviews, starred review, on The Richest Hill on Earth"
Wheeler is a master storyteller. "Library Journal"
No one does it better than Wheeler... an extraordinary writer. "The Round-Up Quarterly on The Far Tribes"
One of the best Western writers around . . . Fascinating characters, vivid imagery, subtle action, and carefully drawn historical detail. "Publishers Weekly""
Passionate, intelligently written, thoroughly entertaining historical fiction. Kirkus Reviews, starred review, on The Richest Hill on Earth
Wheeler is a master storyteller. Library Journal
No one does it better than Wheeler... an extraordinary writer. The Round-Up Quarterly on The Far Tribes
One of the best Western writers around . . . Fascinating characters, vivid imagery, subtle action, and carefully drawn historical detail. Publishers Weekly
""Passionate, intelligently written, thoroughly entertaining historical fiction." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review, on The Richest Hill on Earth
"Wheeler is a master storyteller." --Library Journal
"No one does it better than Wheeler... an extraordinary writer." --The Round-Up Quarterly on The Far Tribes
"One of the best Western writers around . . . Fascinating characters, vivid imagery, subtle action, and carefully drawn historical detail." --Publishers Weekly
Anything Goes: the enchanting story of a vaudeville troupe that makes its way to Western mining towns, from renowned master of the Western novel, Richard S. Wheeler.
The cowboys, gold miners, outlaws, gunmen, prostitutes, and marshals who populate the Wild West never see much big-city entertainment. Most towns are too wild and rowdy for entertainers to enter, let alone perform in. All that is about to change.
August Beausoleil and his colleague, Charles Pomerantz, have taken the Beausoleil Brothers Follies to the remote mining towns of Montana, far from the powerful impresarios who own the talent and control the theaters on the big vaudeville circuits. Their cast includes a collection of has-beens and second-tier performers: Mary Mabel Markey, the shopworn singer now a little out of breath; Wayne Windsor, "The Profile," who favors his audiences with just one side of his face while needling them with acerbic dialogue; Harry the Juggler, who went from tossing teacups to tossing scimitars; Mrs. McGivers and her capuchin monkey band; and the Wildroot Sisters, born to show business and managed by a stage mother who drives August mad.
Though the towns are starved for entertainment, the Follies struggles to fill seats as the show grinds from town to town. Just when the company is desperate for fresh talent, a mysterious young woman astonishes everyone with her exquisite voice.
The Wild West will never be the same. They've seen comics, gorgeous singers, and scimitar-tossing jugglers. Now if the troupers can only make it back East . . . alive!
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by author on title page. Binding tight; interior clean. Appears unread! Unclipped dust jacket in mylar. The enchanting story of a vaudeville troupe that makes its way to Western mining towns. Stated 1st edition; 1st printing per copyright number line. 382pp. Signed by Author(s). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 025444
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near fine. First Edition. Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 382. Signed and dated, January 2016, by author on title page. Cream speckled boards with gilt spine text. Pictorial jacket featuring artwork by Michael Koelsch. Light bumping to spine ends on book and jacket, else fine. A novel of vaudeville coming to the remote mining towns of Montana by this multi-time Spur Award-winning author. "Wheeler is among the top living writers of Western historical novels--if not the best" (Tulsa World). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 22893
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