Fiction. Go west with this cowboy movie novel. MacLean recreates the road bookand reimagines archetypes of the American West, mixing cyber espionage, marital failure, teen anarchy, and film violence. At once a page-turning mystery, an anatomy of friendship, and a postmodern homage to screen classics.

"BLUE WINNETKA SKIES rolls west across America with the anguish of urban peril and ridiculous good spirit, with cowboy songs for background and the tatters of cowboy myth for hope. It's a profoundly American story, and Ron MacLean tells it so lightly and with such casual weirdness that the precision of the prose and the grace of feeling do their work all but unnoticed. A fine book."—Frederick G. Dillen

Author City: Boston, MA USA

Ron MacLean's fiction has appeared in GQ, Greensboro Review, Prism International, Night Train and other quarterlies. He is a recipient of the Frederick Exley Award for Short Fiction and a Pushcart Prize nominee, and author of the novel BLUE WINNETKA SKIES. WHY THE LONG FACE?, a collection of stories, was published in fall 2008.