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Book Review: The Western Lonesome Society

By Robert Garner McBrearty ISBN: 9781-942280-12-5 Conundrum Press: 2016 $14.99; 123pp. Reviewed by Eduardo Rey Brummel This isn’t your father’s Western novel. Time frames – past, more recent past, and what’s current – get sloshed together. Also, every so often an imagined psychologist appears, questioning and harassing our narrator, Jim O‘Brien, who’s also battling “president Jammer” and “the mad linguist.” It may be that O’Brien is really battling paranoid schizophrenia, thus giving us an untrustworthy narrator. Since there’s no way to tell fact from fiction, our best option is to buckle up for the ride. And it is a good ...

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