Taking the Long Way Around the Barn

by Eli Mayhew

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971836124
• ISBN13: 9780971836129
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Panther Creek Pr
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

"Been There, Done That, But not Like Rux Tuttle"

Taking the Long Way Around the BarnBy Eli Mahew 2002There are many ways for a weary, homesick traveler to find the shortest way home.An old impotent Apache warrior might follow the tracks of the mystic white buffalo through the snow back to his wickiup, unless he's too full of beer to keep his Harley between the ditches.A young girl, frightened and lost in a mountain storm with the sound of wolves howling in her ears, might simply tie the reins to the saddle horn and hope her trusted horse is barn sour enough to find his own way home. But unlike many of us who aren't blessed with the laid back nature of the old time cowboy and the knowledge derived from a "talking" hat", Rux Tuttle took the "long way around the barn". Driving a rusty pickup and pulling a trailer, bearing "Chester", a blue-ribbon-winning, four-legged charmer, who proves to be as much a maverick as Rux, he heads back home to No Water, Texas. Rux Tuttle attracts characters like ticks on a jackrabbit. A reformed cocaine addict/country and western singer performing in a honky tonk called Moose Ball's and hiding from her drug-dealing ex-husband, a Mexican wrangler and his Greek wife, who talks like a Harvard graduate, their jake-legged cat, a sexy Apache widow, her ex-priest lover, and a chortling rooster. Eli Mahew teaches us that sometimes it isn't the destination so much as the journey itself that's important and that the quest can be more rewarding than the personal "nirvana" for which we all search.

A wonderful read, one you don't want to miss

Not since "Where the Heart Is" and "Honk and Holler Opening Soon" have I read such a delightful story. Eli Mayhew, a word artist and wonderful storyteller, weaves a tale of a downhome cowboy with a heart of gold and the people he "adopts" on his way back to Texas. The story is richly atmospheric and marks the impressive debut of a talented new author.