Crazy Heart: A Novel

by Thomas Cobb

At the age of fifty-seven, Bad Blake is on his last legs. His weight, his ticker, his liver, even his pick-up truck are all giving him trouble. A renowned songwriter and "picker" who hasn't recorded in five years, Bad now travels the countryside on gigs that take him mostly to motels and bowling alleys. Enter Ms. Right. Can Bad stop living the life of a country-western song and tie a rope around his crazy heart?

248 pages, Paperback

Published February 2, 2010

About the author

Brutal and deft, laced with both violence and desire, Shavetail plunges into the deepest of human urges."