A progressive, alternative university is targeted for takeover by conservative forces in this satiric tale. Aaron Motherway is a Hollywood screenwriter who, while recovering from a traffic accident, is tapped to run the arts program at Parami University, located in Pearl Handle, Wyoming.What Aaron doesn’t know is that he is being set up to fail by various duplicitous forces, and he finds himself immersed in a culture war infused with sexual misconduct, embezzlement, political opportunism, and potential mass murder, played out in a climate of comedic dysfunction and absurdity.His charming and able assistant has his back, fending off a demented poet and venomous colleagues. And he gains the loyalty of some very challenged students—a murderer, a lobster wrangler, and an apostate.But there are surprises in store for Aaron before the story reaches a dramatic conclusion.Buddha Was a Cowboy is a metaphor for many of the issues engulfing and dividing America today, and a darkly humorous take on the current cultural landscape.
Engrossing and compelling novel that wrestles with the artist's contraditions against a backdrop of a life on the road: magical, honest, and pure, but also destructive, dangerous, and out of control.Franz Nicolay is a musician and writer best known for playing the accordion and piano in The World/Inferno Friendship Society and keyboards in The Hold Steady. He was once named #1 of Punk's 10 Best Accordion Players.
Reading group guide available to download from publisher's website.Appeals to a variety of readers: literary novel with speculative/monster story element; atmospheric writing and natural settings; "fabulism."Debut author
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