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| Rowdy in Paris | 
 enlarge | Author: Tim Sandlin
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 269585
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
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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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 mlange 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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 A great persona September 13, 2008
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 it 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
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.
Another good one from Sandlin. July 21, 2008
I could be considered biased because I have loved almost everything Tim Sandlin has written, but I think this book is terrific.
It may be his best work. It is humorous as Sandlin always is and touching as well.
I highly recommend it.
Finding a new author (in this case finding Tim Sandlin) April 10, 2008
Pardon the interruption, however I am rating Tim Sandlin as a "new author find" vs. this specific book. While I own "Rowdy in Paris", I elected to go back and read early Sandlin first...specifically his Sam Callahan trilogy (Skipped Parts, Sorrow Floats, and Social Blunders)
If you are like me, you run out of your favorite authors books, go back and read anything ever written by a good one, and constantly look for new ones.(And many times throw new authors in the trash before finishing) Add Sandlin to your list of must reads, if you haven't discovered him already. I think I found him on one of the other "crazy" author web pages of recommendations (Carl Hiaasen, Bill Fitzhugh, Christopher Moore, or Tim Dorsey...not really sure)
Sandlin's early three books (I like the second one, Sorrow Floats best) show a great talent for "laugh out loud" humor, while still having great social and individual relationship perspective and commentary. Some have reviewed that Sandlin can get "outrageous"...if so, my kind of writing.....IMHO, you can not go wrong reading Tim Sandlin.
A Cowboy in Paris? Brilliant! February 19, 2008
What better fish out of water than a cowboy in Paris. The cultures are so far apart that I both cringed and laughed out loud at the actions of the characters. With so few funny books to choose from, this makes for a fun read.
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