Life Is A Country Western Song

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Life Is a Country Western Song plants Barnes's talents in his own backyard, and much like his collection, Gunning for Ho: Vietnam Stories, he departs assuredly from tropes while simultaneously using the reader's expectations to his advantage

this timely collection paints a clear and objective portrait of contemporary working-class Americans that are not dolts, but free-thinkers, high-spirited and longing for something better

Wrought with empathy, precision and a steady finger on the pulse of the complexities facing todays changing, often turbulent West, Barness stories show a writer at the apex of his craft, offering an updated take on a West that is rapidly descending into the annals of legend.

Author Bio

H. Lee Barnes is an award-winning short-story writer and author of three previous novels, three short-story collections, and two nonfiction books. He was inducted into the Nevada Writer's Hall of Fame in 2009, and in 2013 he received an award for excellence in the arts from the Vietnam Veterans of America for his writings on Vietnam. Barnes teaches English and creative writing at the College of Southern Nevada.