Richard S. Wheeler’s,
An Accidental Novelist –A literary Memoir, is so well done and so mesmerizing
that it seems I was with him every step of the way. Wheeler who weaves some of
the very best western literature ever written is again at his best with this
one.
He tells the
story of his life through his journey from a, not sure this job’s for me,
newspaper-man to successful author. It is a story with settings from the upper Midwest,
to southwestern desert and finally home in the mountains of Montana. Wheeler,
like he does in his western tails, reels in the reader from the start using his
unique blend of storytelling through truthfulness, humor and historical
context.
The story is
also an emotional journey, from happily married through heart wrenching divorce
to the lonely writer and full circle to happily married and fulfilled in
Montana.
For anyone
who loves westerns, wants to be a writer, is a writer, or just wants to read a
heck-of-a-good book, this one is definitely for you. How good was it? As I finished
the last page, I couldn’t stop and immediately downloaded the first of his wonderful
Barnaby Skye novels, Skyes West – Rendezvous, and started reading. This
was a novel I read and enjoyed thirty years ago, and it is still captivating. Today
I believe I will download another of Mr. Wheeler’s works.
Think you
have read the best western books ever? Not if you have not read Mr. Wheeler.
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