{"product_id":"the-last-cowboy-paperback-by-lee-gowan","title":"The Last Cowboy Paperback by Lee Gowan","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eVintage Canada\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2005-01-11)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e304\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780676975833\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e280.67\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e20.29 x 13.13 x 1.93\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eIn this romantic, humorous and harrowing novel, the acclaimed author of \u003cb\u003eMake Believe Love \u003c\/b\u003ereturns to the epic skies and straight roads of Broken Head, Saskatchewan, and takes us into a very modern Western.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSam McMahon can’t understand why his banker colleagues in Toronto keep calling him “cowboy,” when he prefers opera to C\u0026amp;W and fine wine to beer. Sam’s wife is in love with his brother Vern, who has followed the family tradition and works their parents’ farm, a mixed cattle and crop operation inherited from his grandfather, Old Sam. When his wife leaves him stranded by the side of a Saskatchewan highway, Sam is rescued by a woman, Ai Lee, in a rented Toyota. Ai is a film location scout who’s searching for the perfect cliff for legendary director James Aspen’s new film, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Cowboy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThirty years previously, Old Sam dreams of better days in an older West, mending fences, riding horses, raising cattle. To save young Sam, then 10 years old, from what he considers the malaise of the late-20th century, Old Sam drags him off into a blizzard on horseback. His goal is to save a lost cow and her new calf, which may or may not exist. Sam’s parents fear he’ll only manage to kill his grandson. When, only days later, the old cowboy wanders out of doors without his parka in the freezing cold, muttering about a lost boy, he’s rescued by a Native couple out in a “borrowed” car, who run afoul of the police and end up driving into their final sunset. When Ai hears their story from Sam, she thinks she’s found her perfect location.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Last Cowboy\u003c\/b\u003e does much more than update the Western; it weaves together stories and generations and unveils, with beauty and compassion, the leap or fall that awaits us all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo I stretch back in permanent recline and do my best to travel off to a better day, a summer day back fifty years past, a few days after a big rain, so that everything was green except for the cuts in the draws where the runoff had chewed right through the grass. There was a glow to the world back then that has long since been lost. It is painfully elusive, that particular luminescence, but I sit here stubbornly trying to restore the shine of it. I begin with a sky that was as blue as the better skies now, and work my way down to the green, only a breath of a line of white dividing the earth from the heavens.\u003c\/i\u003e -- from \u003cb\u003eThe Last Cowboy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eLee Gowan grew up on a farm near Swift Current, Saskatchewan. He is the author of \u003cb\u003eGoing to Cuba\u003c\/b\u003e, a collection of short stories, and of \u003cb\u003eMake Believe Love\u003c\/b\u003e, a New Face of Fiction novel that was nominated for the Trillium Award. His first screenplay, \u003ci\u003eParis or Somewhere\u003c\/i\u003e, won three screenwriting awards and was nominated for a Gemini. He currently directs the creative writing program at the School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46554485162145,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780676975833","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780676975833.jpg?v=1781770277","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/the-last-cowboy-paperback-by-lee-gowan","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}