Horndog Blue

by Robert Wintner and Robert Wintner

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881334392
• ISBN13: 9781881334392
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Edward R Smallwood
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Middle-aged angst with a sad smile

This was my second Wintner novel, after Whirlaway, which I loved. So my expectations were high and Horndog Blue did not disappoint. Wintner has the razor sharp insight of a rebel with street smarts who is not afraid to articulate his version of truth, the ugliness and beauty of people, including himself. This book is billed as fiction but reads very personal. An unmarried, highly sexed middle-aged man has a chance encounter on the beach with a golden girl, beautiful, intelligent but unformed. Against the odds, they connect up and begin to travel in Europe together. He's drawn to her youth and beauty, she to his maturity and assurance, each learning from the other, in spite of or perhaps because of the difference in age. Her radiance inspires him to consider commitment even though it's against his natural instincts. After many a detour he is ready to make the leap, maybe. But it's not the story line that makes the book special but the quality of Wintner's prose - lyrical, colorful, subversive, honest, with absolutly no concessions to political correctness, remininscent of the character played by Jack Nicholson in the movie As Good As It Gets. Readers will either love it or hate it.