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The Western Road
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781944527037
Publisher: Natural Press
Published: Feb 24 2026
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Ian Bloom wrote The Western Road at age 21 in New York-young enough to be reckless, old enough to be dangerous-before the novels, before the West, before the code. What emerged was a detonator, half-bullet, half-elegy: cousins raised in gasoline and blood, driving to outrun inheritance.
Muscle cars, Malibu cliffs, Hollywood rot, bloodline politics-and a heist that goes right, then wrong. Mustang. '55 Chevy. A girl who wants to be famous. Men who want to be gods.
Shot through with operatic violence and salt-stung decay, it reads like a lost early Michael Mann reel with Cormac McCarthy brutality and Joan Didion sun.
A document of youth. A first flare. This is where the Bloom myth catches fire.
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