Reckon by Logan Phillips - 9780816555826

ReckonAuthor(s): Logan Phillips\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Arizona Press, United States\nImprint: University of Arizona Press\nISBN-13: 9780816555826, 978-0816555826\nSynopsis\nWhats it like to have been born in Tombstone, Arizona? \n In Reckon, artist Logan Phillips returns to the fabled town to face the history he was raised on as a boygunfights, outlaws, and Hollywood cowboysfor a new, personal confrontation with the Wests foundational mythology. This hybrid memoir also explores sexuality, masculinity, parenting, and what it means to love a land rife with contradiction and slathered in murder. \n As innovative as it is moving, this memoir is constructed of essays, photography, poetry, newspaper clippings from the Tombstone Epitaph Local Edition, and of course, movie screenplays. As he writes the characters of his pastincluding Youngfather and TeenmePhillips finds the real history to be much more complex than the stories he was told. This is Tombstone in the 1980s.