Fiction and Literature

An Irreverent Romp Through the New West

What if a small New Mexico ranch came under siege by nudist balloonists? What if a pretty, pint-sized fireball of a ranch daughter, Teddy Gibbs, took on these "new recreationistas"--what does that portend for the heartland where family ranches are disappearing faster than soft money in an election year? And what if Teddy was accompanied by a band of freethinkers bound together by a mutual abiding reverence for the entertainment value of anarchy?

Award-winning author Bruce Hoppe answers these questions and more in Don't Let All the Pretty Days Get By (216 pp., tpb $12.95), a novel of seriocomic originality and a tour de force of American theater of the tongue-in-cheek. Hoppe won nine New Mexico Press Association awards while working as a journalist for the Union County Leader in Clayton, New Mexico.

Don't Let All The Pretty Days Get By explores the landscape that is the New West; a place of changing land use patterns, behind-the-scenes chicanery at Indian gaming casinos and political hi jinks that pass for governance in state legislatures.

Bruce Hoppe works as a free lance journalist. He earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Antioch Univerisity Los Angeles.

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