Crazy Heart

By Thomas Cobb

Book Overview

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?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060158034
• ISBN13: 9780060158033
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Bookthrift Co
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.

Customer Reviews

overlooked gem

This is a wonderful book reeking with authenticity about the hard lives lived in country music before the glitter of CMT. Cobb is a beautiful, spare stylist whose penchant for the truth keeps him from jumping on a glib music business plot and adorning it with with easy ornamentation. He's after something deeper here about tragedy and human limitations. I never could understand why this novel failed to garner a larger following other than the usual vagaries of the book business that sheds non bestselling titles within three weeks. "Crazy Heart," I suspect, is one that is destined to be rediscovered.