Crazy Heart.

COBB, Thomas.

$600.00

Item Number: 146492

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987.

First edition of this work which “might be the finest country-western novel ever written, bar none” (Houston Post), basis for the 2009 film starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell, and Robert Duvall. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “To Jill All my best and my thanks Thomas Cobb Tuscan, AZ ’87Houston, 87.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.

"A masterpiece. . . . Cobb has created an unforgettable character who engages not only your interest but your emotion . . . and who proceeds to take you on a roller-coaster ride through his tawdrily tumultuous life" (Chicago Tribune).