Way Out West A Novel by Wyn Cooper   Out now! Free shipping in Dec.     Robin and Tyler meet by accident—she runs him over in the middle of the night. He’s a stunt man turned director. She’s a recovering wild child. Together, they’re trouble.  As they make their way through the stark, beautiful landscapes of Nevada and Arizona, Robin and Tyler soon discover that they’re doing much more than making a B movie. They’re battling demons, and sometimes each other. And they’re unearthing secrets and sins—past and present, personal and nuclear. Join them on a thrilling ride through fantastic, mysterious territory.

“I never knew what would happen next in Way Out West, but from the moment Robin, driving on a lonely road at night, hits a shadowy pedestrian—I desperately wanted to. The remarkable poet Wyn Cooper has written a spellbinding novel.

—Margot Livesey

“Like the brilliant, rock-and-roll love child of Joan Didion and Denis Johnson, Way Out West is a wild ride through a rough landscape imbued with poetry and pain. It will break your heart on one page and lift you up on the next. I loved it.

—Ivy Pochoda

“Way Out West is a darkly comic and wonderfully compelling novel both in tone and in its gritty depiction of late-twentieth-century America and all of its addictions, afflictions, and post-nuclear dread.”

—Andre Dubus III

“Way Out West is like a hybrid of Raymond Chandler and Nathanael West, with crisp and entertaining dialogue, minimal exposition, and enough bon mots and pithy insights to fill a devil’s dictionary.”

– Kai Maristed, On the Seawall

“Cooper’s first novel is a bold experiment, daring readers to upend expectations and venture off into the desert with him.”

– Brattleboro Reformer

More: 

The Commons tells the tale of Way Out West's long road to publication

Vermont Public Radio interviews Wyn Cooper

Wyn Cooper’s website