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Tag Archives: Crazy Heart
Struggling to Survive, Not to Please: Thomas Cobb’s ‘With Blood in Their Eyes’
In his latest book, With Blood in Their Eyes (University of Arizona Press, 210 pages), novelist Thomas Cobb’s roster of main characters is small: brothers John and Tom Power, hired man Tom Sisson, and the two festering eyeballs of the title. Framing a real-life 1918 Arizona standoff between the Powers and the law within a much larger exploration of Southwestern societal change, Cobb (whose novel Crazy Heart was turned into a critically acclaimed movie starring Jeff Bridges) crafts a breathless escape story and stops just short of the historical record’s unhappy ending. Years before the shootout that would leave them …Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona, Crazy Heart, novel, Thomas Cobb, With Blood in Their Eyes
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