![]() ![]() Black can't seem to decide whether he's writing a Disney wild ride, with a fantasy cowboy genie who lives in a tin of chewing tobacco and talks in verse a grisly look at rodeo, where inexperienced riders get killed by 2,000-lb. In prose that's a rhapsody to tall tales and the serial comma, the narrative twitches this way and that. Cody of Ten Sleep, Wyo., and his Texan buddy, Lick, travel through a season on the professional circuit. A former bull rider, Black offers a saga set in the early 1980s, when professional rodeo athletes were still cowboys. Cowboy poet Black's debut, ""a rodeo novel,"" is fast out of the chute, but a cluttered, corny ride. ![]()
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