Anything Goes: the enchanting story of a vaudeville troupe that makes its way to Western mining towns, from renowned master of the Western novel, Richard S. Wheeler.

The cowboys, gold miners, outlaws, gunmen, prostitutes, and marshals who populate the Wild West never see much big-city entertainment. Most towns are too wild and rowdy for entertainers to enter, let alone perform in. All that is about to change.

August Beausoleil and his colleague, Charles Pomerantz, have taken the Beausoleil Brothers Follies to the remote mining towns of Montana, far from the powerful impresarios who own the talent and control the theaters on the big vaudeville circuits. Their cast includes a collection of has-beens and second-tier performers: Mary Mabel Markey, the shopworn singer now a little out of breath; Wayne Windsor, "The Profile," who favors his audiences with just one side of his face while needling them with acerbic dialogue; Harry the Juggler, who went from tossing teacups to tossing scimitars; Mrs. McGivers and her capuchin monkey band; and the Wildroot Sisters, born to show business and managed by a stage mother who drives August mad.

Though the towns are starved for entertainment, the Follies struggles to fill seats as the show grinds from town to town. Just when the company is desperate for fresh talent, a mysterious young woman astonishes everyone with her exquisite voice.

The Wild West will never be the same. They've seen comics, gorgeous singers, and scimitar-tossing jugglers. Now if the troupers can only make it back East . . . alive!

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Praise for this book

“Passionate, intelligently written, thoroughly entertaining historical fiction.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review, on The Richest Hill on Earth

“Wheeler is a master storyteller.” —Library Journal

“No one does it better than Wheeler... an extraordinary writer.” —The Round-Up Quarterly on The Far Tribes

“One of the best Western writers around . . . Fascinating characters, vivid imagery, subtle action, and carefully drawn historical detail.” —Publishers Weekly




About the AuthorRichard S. Wheeler has written over fifty novels and several short stories. He has won five Spur Awards and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the field of western literature. Wheeler is the author of the Skye’s West series, and many standalone novels including Snowbound, The Richest Hill on Earth, and Anything Goes. He lives in the literary and film community of Livingston, Montana, and is married to Professor Sue Hart, of Montana State University-Billings. Before turning to fiction he was a newsman and book editor. He has raised horses and been a wrangler at an Arizona dude ranch.
Title: Anything Goes : A Novel
Author(s): Richard S. Wheeler
ISBN: 9781466847941
Copyright 2015
Release Date: December 08, 2015
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Countries: United States, Canada | Learn more about available countries
Language: English
Format: ePub,mobi | Learn More about our supported formats
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