APPALOOSA RISING: The Legend of the Cowboy Buddha

by Gino Sky ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 16, 1980

Mystical, day-glo, formless fantasy doings around Stanley Basin, Idaho: herbal tea and George Dickel Sour Mash, cowpunchers and Appaloosa range-riders and pickup trucks, plus lots of trendy oriental philosophy. There's a rodeo rider, for instance, who owns a trombone that, when loaded with champagne and oatmeal soap, makes magic bubbles--and in each bubble is a fantastic scenario. And there's Jimmi Maroon, an angel of the Cowboy Buddha, who teaches Jonquil Rose about beautiful tantric sex of the non-orgasmic variety; she later gives birth to a replica of Jimmi's beloved pickup truck. And the language is about an even balance between tooled, bootleather obscenity and this: ""She began to move through the layers of life--through the great powers of her own combined into an inner cellular river of light. . . . A mandala life inside the centering of her own powers."" Sky, with this first novel, doubtlessly sews up the Tibetan Buddhist, male-consciousness-raised cowboy market; otherwise--forget it.

Pub Date: May 16, 1980

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1980

Categories: FICTION