Cowboy: A Novel

Sara Davidson writes the "intensely intimate, sexually compelling" story of a romance between a writer and an unschooled rugged cowboy. "We walked, or I should say, leaped into the affair knowing that it had no future and we went on from moment to moment because we needed it and we were absolutely sure that in a short time we would look at each other and have nothing to say and that would be that." She's a 51-year old mother who writes books and TV shows. He's an unschooled cowboy from Arizona, a younger free spirit who makes bridles out of rawhide. A chance meeting that brings these two opposites together soon evolves into an emotional and erotic bond that defies every expectation. At first Sara's children are charmed by the visiting cowboy, but when they realize he's going to stay around, they do all they can to get rid of him. Sara's friends are skeptical and she herself must resolve a timeless struggle between the mind and the heart.