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First tagged "lesbian romance" by Joni L. Rodgers
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With a spook of her barbarous regretful mom over her shoulder, Tulsa Bitters, zaftig, learned and creatively orphaned, takes a westbound train, dynamic to reinvent herself. Mac White Wolf MacPeters, half Blackfoot and half distracted Irish, hears her voice on a radio late one night, and before he can remind himself that he’ll never tumble in love, he does.
In Montana in a 1970s, people aren’t accustomed to conference a woman’s voice on a radio. But to Tulsa, distant divided from all a people who desired and harm her, midnight rock’n’roll feels like home, generally once she finds out who's out there listening.
Crazy for Trying is a dauntless entrance novel that sincerely explodes with love-struck appetite and sharp-tongued tenacity. Joni Rodgers loads adult a parsimonious round of lovers, adversaries, dysfunctional family members and comically injured friends, pushing them down a uninformed highway by hard-earned love, a dangerous western solitude, and a aged passionate politics.
Barnes & Noble Discover Award finalist (1997)
“Think Jane Eyre with rock’n’roll.” Houston Press
“Terrific…a feeling float by rising feminist sensibilities.” Billings Gazette
“A uninformed pleasure…Rodgers writes radical adore scenes that whip a pages.” Orlando Sentinel
“Refreshing and provocative…” Houston Chronicle
“Truly captivating…Rodgers’ poetry and impression are unique.” Texas Books in Review
“Joni Rodgers can write sex scenes that’ll make your toes twist and your hair mount on end. At her best, her poetry is dazzling, risky, and intoxicating, and during a heart, Crazy for Trying is an desirous debut.” Pam Houston, bestselling author of Cowboys Are My Weakness
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #161225 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-07-21
- Released on: 2011-07-21
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
A smashing initial novel, Crazy for Trying follows a adventures of Tulsa Bitters, who takes a midnight radio announcer pursuit in Montana, withdrawal behind a catastrophic adore event and a dysfunctional family life. But adore isn't by with spunky, corpulent Tulsa. It comes by in a charismatic form of a crusty rustic named Mac, whose regretful expectations are not quite traditional. If we like a happy finale for a bold and friendly character, Tulsa's story will fill your heart.
From Publishers Weekly
Using a immeasurable Big Sky nation of Montana as a backdrop, Rodgers chronicles a confused immature woman's tour of self-discovery circa 1979 in this uneven, softly interesting initial novel. Dumped by her large artist partner and disorder from a genocide of her mother, a bestselling lesbian feminist author, 19-year-old Tulsa Bitters arrives in Helena, Mont., with $20 and a damaged heart. Tall, overweight and overread, shy Tulsa shortly discovers her possess voice when she becomes "VA Lones," a initial womanlike deejay in Helena's history. Sensual and exhilarating, Tulsa's on-air celebrity captures a hearts of a town's cowboys, including "Mac" MacPeters, a 45-year-old self-destructive loner and bookworm. But their highway to loyal adore is blocked by personal demons and such obstacles as Tulsa's determined ex-boyfriend and a harmful glow that roughly kills Mac. Rodgers, herself a initial womanlike deejay in Helena, has an authentic voice that mostly gets mislaid in artificial denunciation and an irritating bolt of book references that are some-more pretended than literary. Most disappointing, however, is a narrative's discerning skirmish into young romance. Tulsa's presentation as a confident, secure lady comes reduction from her apparent comprehension and hard-won career struggles than from her event with a voluptuous comparison lover.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
"Tulsa" Bitters leaves her Montana home to straighten herself out after her mother's death, her father's desertion, and a damaged adore affair. She finds herself amid a organisation of dysfunctional and desirable people. She becomes VA Lones, a d.j. who captivates all who hear her. Can this overweight, brainy Jewish lady brought adult by a famous "femilitant" lesbian mom find loyal complacency with an alcoholic, drug-using Vietnam veteran? Tulsa loves Mac, 20 years comparison than she and himself a son in a really dysfunctional family. It does work out, and a book gets improved as it goes on. Rodgers creates all of her characters work as Tulsa gains self-respect and comes to grips with her past life and a life she wants to live. Recommended for renouned collections.?Barbara Maslekoff, Ohioana Lib., Columbus, Ohio
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Most useful patron reviews
8 of 8 people found a following examination helpful.
Sad and funny. we laughed with tears in my eyes.
By A Customer
19 year aged Tulsa Bitters carries a lot some-more container than her 2 guitars when she stairs off a steer in Helena, Montana. She carries with her a lifetime of feeling nauseous and inadequate, flourishing adult in a home with a lesbian Mother and a prolonged left Dad. These feelings disappear when she goes on a atmosphere as a late night Dee Jay. Her new life as V.A. Lownes, in that she can be listened though not seen brings out her middle beauty and brings a cloyed Viet Nam vet, Mac McPeters into her life. The intrigue filled battles between a aged oldster and a glamorous sounding immature Dee Jay are fought opposite a credentials of a plateau of Montana. Love eventually overcomes a bad memories Tulsa and Mac grew adult with. A classical adore story that will make we giggle and cry, spasmodic during a same time
3 of 3 people found a following examination helpful.
This is a good read!
By Barbara Sissel
In Crazy For Trying, Joni Rodgers, delivers a story that is as large and far-reaching and pleasing as a Big Sky nation setting. It is a punch to a solar plexus, steadfast on so many levels. Troubled and witty, and infrequently irreverent, it is a truly bold scrutiny of one immature woman's tour by distressing resources of detriment and abandonment, of disadvantage and self doubt, to full-blown, joyous self-discovery.
Tulsa Bitters, a daughter of a famous, recently-deceased feminist, arrives in Helena, Montana with a dented heart, twenty bucks and a integrate of guitars. She wants to censor and life gives her a plan, a approach to do it in plain steer as "VA Lones", Helena's initial womanlike deejay. It's a pursuit she was innate for, one she loves. Soon she meets Mac, a man twice her age, and she loves him, too. As Tulsa, or Tuppy-my-guppy, as her famous mom affectionately called her, she competence have lacked a certainty to take on such a pursuit and a lover, though as VA, she can be bold--sort of. The attribute between Mac and Tulsa is no standard May-December affair. It's a entrance of age, a entrance to terms for them both. It's proposal and tough; it takes side roads that turn off a heart's ledge. A approach is mislaid and afterwards found usually to dump into a dim night. A tiny city watches, or during times what is a full and colorful expel of players mixes in. As a reader, we turn entangled, engrossed.
Rodger's voice is unique, a devious and pleasing gift, that breathes life into characters and a tract that is as vividly drawn and constrained as it is passionate. The finale is adult for grabs. You competence be surprised; we only competence find yourself shouting by your tears.
5 of 6 people found a following examination helpful.
A accessible voice in a night
By A Customer
Since we spent over twenty years on a radio and have only expelled my possess novel with hoop jockeys as a categorical characters (WIZARD OF THE WIND, St. Martin's Press), we was really meddlesome in Ms. Rogers' book. She didn't let me down.
There's something dedicated about being means to hold someone over a air, and her protaganist fast masters that knack. Each time we was fearful she would concede a story to get too serious, she would move me right behind adult with something so funny...and so real...that we was swept along with a story.
I wish Juni Rogers will continue her literary career. She shows good promise. And she has finished each late-night dee jay out there a genuine service.
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