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Synopsis
"Hello, Mr. Lavender. I hear you have a house for sale. Boulder House?"
"I might have. That depends."
"On what?"
"On who's asking."
Mr Lavender explained that he was considering selling. California was really
starting to piss him off. "I'm a redneck gun-nut. I haven't killed anyone in years,
but if I want to kill someone that's my goddamn right, and I don't give a red rat's
ass what anyone says."
This was David Hirst's first encounter with the locals of Pioneertown, deep in the California High Desert, the place that would improbably become home to him, his girlfriend, and their dog after relocating across the world. Moving into Boulder House -- a huge, rambling edifice constructed from giant boulders to withstand a Russian invasion -- they were hurled into a world that few ever get to experience up close. Their life in one of the last outposts of America's Wild West is recounted here with great humor and humanity.
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"Hirst has written a lively account of adventures to relish." FOUR STARS
--Sunday Territorian'His descriptions of the barren, wild landscape capture its rugged beauty and begin to help us understand the attraction of such a difficult life ... an amusing account of meetings with strange types.'
--Felicity Price "Sunday Star Times "About the Author
David Hirst was an Australian journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author of Heroin in Australia. A great love of the American West took him to California and ultimately to a life in the Eastern Mojave desert. Upon returning to Australia, his prescient and revolutionary finance column, 'Planet Wall Street', was widely read in The Age newspaper. David died in 2013.
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- PublisherScribe Us
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1947534319
- ISBN 13 9781947534315
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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