Cry Macho

A Novel

By: N. Richard Nash

Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey

Now a major motion picture directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, a riveting novel of an aging rodeo star's last ride.

Mike's best years are behind him. There was a time when he was the best rider in the circuit, but a divorce and years of hard living have worn his body down. After an accident, his career comes to an abrupt end, but his boss gives him one last job: he must cross the border into Mexico, kidnap his boss’s son, Rafo, from his boss’s ex-wife, to be used as leverage in their ongoing divorce. Mike arrives to find the boy has already run away, and his plan is immediately exposed to the local police. When he finds Rafo living on the streets of Mexico city, supporting himself though petty crime and winnings from the occasional cockfight, Mike convinces the boy to come back to Texas. Still running from the law, the two set out on a journey northward that forges an unlikely friendship and forces both to reckon with the choices they’ve made in pursuit of being “macho.” Originally published in 1976, N. Richard Nash's novel of friendship and the search for identity is now being adapted for the big screen.

Solid

Took a few times to start and restart the first few chapters. Once you get past that it becomes an interesting read. The relationship between characters and their development is great. Do not read if you do not feel comfortable with foul/descriptive language. The book is better paced and more descriptive than the movie. Personally, I give the book a 4.8.

Cry Macho

I liked the story I loved the love. I hated the hate I cried & I laughed. it was a great listen.

vulgar and foul

I could not finish listening through this book. I overlooked a lot of the language at first but the verbal description of trying to make a horse's penis fit into the vagina of a woman was more than I could stand. I do not recommend this book to anyone with any sensibility.