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Rowdy in Paris | 
| Author: Tim Sandlin
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 647871
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 1594489742
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781594489747
ASIN: 1594489742
Publication Date: January 24, 2008
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Product Description
A rollicking comic romp by the author of Skipped Parts and Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty.
Rowdy Talbot isn't the world's greatest bull rider. Not even close. But he lives by the cowboy code, and he never forgets to take off his cowboy hat during the national anthem.
When Rowdy wins the rodeo in Crockett County, Colorado, he celebrates his triumph with two young Frenchwomen he meets in a local bar. The next morning, when he discovers that the two have left for Paris with the championship belt buckle he won, Rowdy does what any true cowboy would: He hops on a plane to the City of Light to retrieve it.
What follows is a comic collision of cultures and personalities. In Rowdy in Paris, Tim Sandlin has concocted an unlikely but engaging m lange of characters: disaffected French revolutionaries, a turquoise-peddling CIA operative, and a middle-aged courtesan, all caught in a plot to destroy an American fast-food chain. At the center of the chaos is Rowdy himself, who finds as he searches for the belt buckle that there's another world beyond the back of a bull.
By turns smart and satirical, biting and engaging, Rowdy in Paris is a surprisingly moving story about what it means to broaden one's horizons by opening one's heart.
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 Very Worth Reading May 15, 2009
D. Brunskill (Riddle, OR)
Not, in my opinion, as good as his GroVant series or his more recent "Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty." Nonetheless, an extremely good read and well worth a read and the money. I rate it a Sandlin B+.
 entertaining January 3, 2009
K. S. H. (Des Moines, Iowa)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A real departure from my normal read. You can tell a man wrote it and there was no shortage of men's fantasy sex (not that there is anything wrong with that...funny stuff). Enjoyed the French and American comparisons. I want to recommend this book, but I'm not sure to whom.
 Rowdy in Paris November 18, 2008
International Harvster (Cherry Hill, NJ USA)
Very funny novel with lots of cowboy philosophy. Young bull rider spends his last dollars to fly to Paris, France to recover his stolen rodeo championship belt buckle. Why? To give it to his young son who lives with his ex-wife. Why? So the kid won't be brain-washed by his mother when she tells the boy that his father never amounted to anything. Along the way Rowdy learns more about life and love.
A great persona September 13, 2008
B. Wilfong (Newark, OH)
The greatest strength of this novel is the voice and point of view of its narrator and protagonist Rowdy. Sandlin has done a wonderful job of creating a persona whose dry wit and pigheadedness creates much of the humor in this text. Rowdy's logic can be ridiculously close minded one minute and amazingly tolerant and wise the next. It is this character's contradictory nature and his uncomplicated view on life that gives this novel its innate charm.
Tim Sandlin is a gifted storyteller, and his writing has moments of sheer brilliance. You might be reading a chapter with a ridiculous plot element and all of a sudden stumble upon a line that stops you cold with its depth and singular power. This happened to me numerous times while reading this book, and I for one appreciate a text that has literary elements AND moments of simple "fun".
Be prepared for an ending that is more touching than the reader will be primed for. The situation that Sandlin creates between Rowdy and his son Tyson rings very true, as I know people who have found themselves in very similar circumstances. The reality of that subplot is actually uncomfortable and painful at times because of its harsh authenticity.
Overall Rowdy in Paris is a worthwhile and enjoyable read. Buy it. Maybe it will convince Mr. Sandlin's publishers to put more of his books back into print.
Gentle and boistrous satire August 12, 2008
Deborah Turrell Atkinson (Honolulu, Hawaii USA)
Warning: you will not want to put this book down. Sandlin's hilarious scenario cuts to the heart of human nature. You will love these characters for their courage, persistence, and desperate eccentricity. I laughed, I teared up, I didn't want the story to end.
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