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Improbable Fortunes - by Jeffrey Price (Paperback)

Improbable Fortunes - by  Jeffrey Price (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Winner of the 2016 Laramie Awards for Western Fiction</b><br><b>Longlisted for a Reading the West Book Award</b><br><b>Finalist for the Colorado Book Award for Best Fiction</b><br><b>Finalist for the High Plains Book Awards</b> <p/>In <i>Improbable Fortunes</i>, Jeffrey Price takes us on a wild ride into Vanadium, a dusty, down-on-its-heels mining town in southwest Colorado--where it would be fair to assume that nothing has ever happened. But you'd be wrong. As it turns out, quite a lot has happened, starting with a suspicious mudslide that destroys the town's Main Street and a cowboy, Buster McCaffrey, arrested for the death of one of the richest men in America, Marvin Mallomar. <p/>As the soon-to-retire Sheriff, Shep Dudival, investigates the circumstances surrounding the murder, it comes to light that Buster and Mallomar's young wife were having a Cowboy Always Rings Twice affair. From there, Price takes this familiar story plot and turns it on its head--folding a rococo cast of Vanadium's characters into a timeline that begins with Vanadium's post-WWII labor strife and ends with the Kulturkampf of present day. <p/>While it may all seem humorous and surreal at first blush, one gets the feeling by <i>Improbable Fortunes'</i> unguessable conclusion that Price has used the fictitious town of Vanadium--a place without a recognizable gas station, a decent restaurant, or a clean bathroom--as the Rosetta Stone for something larger.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Tom Jones set in the still-Wild West. <br>--<i>Publishers Weekly</i> <p/>Price's novel is a bronc-busting ride that will have the reader holding on for the entire book. A clever mix of spaghetti Western and crime novel, <i>Improbable Fortunes</i> is a satirical treasure as "improbable" as the rebirth of the woe-begotten protagonist.<br>--<i>Chanticleer Book Reviews</i> <p/>Jeffrey Price has written one of the most hilarious, ridiculous and ultimately believable, books on life in the modern west.<br>--<b>Mark Billingsley</b>, <i>Time Out</i> Book Critic (<i>Aspen Daily News</i>)<br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jeffrey Price</b> is a screenwriter best known for cowriting <i>Who Framed Roger Rabbit</i>, <i>How The Grinch Stole Christmas</i>, and <i>Shrek III</i>. Seeking the refuge of small-town life, he moved his family from Los Angeles to southwest Colorado.

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