{"product_id":"strange-cowboy-lincoln-dahl-turns-five-9780985023515","title":"Strange Cowboy: Lincoln Dahl Turns Five","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Sam Michel is such a smart, manic, virtuosic stylist . . . the kind of deep insights that make you suddenly and newly appreciative of the world around you.\"--George Saunders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere was a hot, high sun, a hard ground and a long way off to any certain water, and my wife, a tenderfoot, I thought, not immodest, seemed bent on ruined feet and spectacle, on making of herself to passing innocents a living proof of what could happen to a man and woman ventured too far off alone together in the desert. Yet who passed? Who could be so innocent? Snakes and ravens, rabbits, buzzards, toads-- these passed, these witnessed, and what could they have made from us?...I saw myself preceded by my wife. I wanted to follow her, feel what she felt; I thought that I might find myself absolved... Maybe I would get some. Somewhere in me was a cheerful voice assuring me that what this needed was our getting laid.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is the head of his home--the one to speak, surely--on the occasion of his son Lincoln Dahl Jr.'s fifth birthday. Wife and mother order him to engage with his boy, but he remains in his chair dreaming up the speech he'll give to convey his life and glory to his boy, meanwhile avoiding his child and all others, until forced from his chair. Here's cowboy Beckett, a man of wonder and excess.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSam Michel\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eUnder the Light\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBig Dogs and Flyboys\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tyrant Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/11\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780985023515\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/08\/2012\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sam Michel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52403388350645,"sku":"9780985023515","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0c5d8aa0-f5f2-4031-97b5-2ef6d5159731.jpg?v=1774969039","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/strange-cowboy-lincoln-dahl-turns-five-9780985023515","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}