Hollywood Buckaroo

Overview

A man. No plan. A hamburger commercial. A wild west town. A mess. Tracy DeBrincat’s Hollywood Buckaroo takes place in the fictionalized world of Buckaroo, based on the real-life movie set location of Pioneertown, California. A story about a guy coping with his father’s death while living out a twisted version of his dream before returning to a life he dreads, it’s also a love letter to the movies, the afterlife, the high desert, dysfunctional families, broken hearts, broken legs, celebrity, infamy, William Carlos Williams, the possibility of aliens, and the supreme satisfaction of a really great shower.

Reviews

Hollywood Buckaroo will have a joyous ring of truth to anyone who has toiled (or tried to) in the crazy, silly, and ultimately bizarre world of show business that is brought to life so wonderfully within these pages.” —Ron McLarty, bestselling author of The Memory of Running and Traveler 

 “If Kurt Vonnegut teamed up with J. D. Salinger to write a teaser for Six Feet Under and the Coen Brothers filmed it, you’d have a sense of the gorgeous, off-beat, poetic, deep, astonishingly hilarious, intimate, touching family of characters that Tracy DeBrincat has created in Hollywood Buckaroo.” —Hal Ackerman, UCLA screenwriting co-chair

“Hollywood Buckaroo is so funny and so entertaining. There is much to like about this, particularly the humor, but even more than that, there are passages where the writing is so amazing, I realized I was holding my breath as I was reading it. Sander’s incredible experiences in Buckaroo may be strange, but they are never boring.” —Leslie Schwartz, author Angels Crest and Jumping the Green

Author Biography

Tracy DeBrincat’s prize-winning short stories and poetry have appeared in a variety of literary journals from Another Chicago Magazine to Zyzzyva. Her novel, Hollywood Buckaroo, received the 2011 Big Moose Prize and was published by Black Lawrence Press. Award-winning short story collections, Troglodyte and Moon Is Cotton & She Laugh All Night, were published by Elixir Press and Subito Press, respectively. She lives in Los Angeles where she is always working on a new novel.