Crazy Heart - Couverture souple

At the age of fifty-seven, Bad Blake is on his last legs. His weight, his ticker, his liver, even his pick-up truck are all giving him trouble. A renowned songwriter and picker who hasn t recorded in five years, Bad now travels the countryside on gigs that take him mostly to motels and bowling alleys. Enter Ms. Right. Can Bad stop living the life of a country-western song and tie a rope around his crazy heart? Ties in with the major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges for which he has won the Golden Globe and been nominated for an Oscar in the Best Actor category.

Thomas Cobb's marvelous first novel doesn't just play on your heartstrings, it breaks them. --San Francisco Examiner

A measure of Thomas Cobb's talent is that he can make Bad Blake's story amusing even as we watch him fall. Bad is entirely sympathetic, and this crazy heart is vivid; the milieu is as resonant as a steel guitar, and the plot moves along without skipping a beat. --New York Times

Crazy Heart is a beautiful book.The characters are cut cleanly out of America... Bad Blake is a man you will not soon forget. --Washington Times