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Hollywood Buckaroo

Tracy Debrincat

A man. No plan. A hamburger commercial. A wild west town. A mess. Tracy DeBrincat's Hollywood Buckaroo takes place in the fictionalized world of Buckaroo, based on the real-life movie set location of Pioneertown, California. A story about a guy coping with his father's death while living out a twisted version of his dream before returning to a life he dreads, it's also a love letter to the movies, the afterlife, the high desert, dysfunctional families, broken hearts, broken legs, celebrity, infamy, William Carlos Williams, the possibility of aliens, and the supreme satisfaction of a really great shower.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
  • Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2012
  • Pages: 296
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.60in - 1.00in - 1.10lb
  • EAN: 9780982876688
  • Categories: LiteraryComing of AgeHumorous - Dark Humor

About the Author

Debrincat, Tracy: - Tracy DeBrincat's short story collection, TROGLODYTE, was awarded the 2012 Elixir Prize and published by Elixir Press in January 2014. Her novel HOLLYWOOD BUCKAROO was awarded the inaugural Big Moose Prize and published by Black Lawrence Press, and the short story collection MOON IS COTTON & SHE LAUGH ALL NIGHT received a prize for innovative fiction and was published in 2010 by Subito Press (University of Colorado Boulder). She has published prize-winning short stories and poetry in literary journals from Another Chicago Magazine to Zyzzyva and authors the blog Bigfoot Lives!. She is a freelance creative advertising consultant in the entertainment business and loves living in Los Angeles.

Praise for this book

Hollywood Buckaroo will have a joyous ring of truth to anyone who has toiled (or tried to) in the crazy, silly, and ultimately bizarre world of show business that is brought to life so wonderfully within these pages." --Ron McLarty, bestselling author of The Memory of Running and Traveler
"If Kurt Vonnegut teamed up with J. D. Salinger to write a teaser for Six Feet Under and the Coen Brothers filmed it, you'd have a sense of the gorgeous, off-beat, poetic, deep, astonishingly hilarious, intimate, touching family of characters that Tracy DeBrincat has created in Hollywood Buckaroo." --Hal Ackerman, UCLA screenwriting co-chair
"Hollywood Buckaroo is so funny and so entertaining. There is much to like about this, particularly the humor, but even more than that, there are passages where the writing is so amazing, I realized I was holding my breath as I was reading it. Sander's incredible experiences in Buckaroo may be strange, but they are never boring." --Leslie Schwartz, author Angels Crest and Jumping the Green