Real Men Ride Horses: Cowboys and Indians, Outlaws and In-Laws, Mormons and Other Strange Bedfellows in the Pink Desert - Softcover

Shakin, Ken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0854492852 ISBN 13: 9780854492855

Publisher: Heretic Books, 1999

Synopsis

Wander the pink desert, where the heat is thick, cowboys come clean, Indians tell all, and the author as voyeur writes down their stories. In Ken Shakin’s erotic collection, Western America is revealed, stripped to the waist, where men and boys get lost in the desert, looking for a wet dream.

"With a staccato beat and raw sexuality, Ken Shakin writes visceral tales about loneliness, lust, and love with an evocative voice. The prose feels breathless--like a confession-- and uses tense and POV to great effect. The unnamed narrators tell tales of cowboys and Indians, real and imagined, with forlorn longing. Using the desert as setting and metaphor, Shakin's stories are direct like a punch to the gut." -- Vincent Diamond, author of Rough Cut

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Review:

Set in the New Mexican desert, Shakin's book is a collection of startlingly vivid, often witty stories, many informed by a strong sense of the history of the area and the cultural differences of those who live there, as well as their sexual and gender variations. --glbtq, an Encylopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer Culture

With a staccato beat and raw sexuality, Ken Shakin writes visceral tales about loneliness, lust, and love with an evocative voice. The prose feels breathless--like a confession-- and uses tense and POV to great effect. The unnamed narrators tell tales of cowboys and Indians, real and imagined, with forlorn longing. Using the desert as setting and metaphor, Shakin's stories are direct like a punch to the gut. --Vincent Diamond, author of Rough Cut

About this edition

• Publisher: Heretic Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0854492852
• ISBN 13: 9780854492855
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150