Booklist review of Twentynine Palms

Issue: June 1, 2010

Twentynine Palms.

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Pyne, Daniel (Author) Jul 2010. 240 p. Counterpoint, paperback, $14.95. (9781582435732).

Marginal Hollywood actor Jack Baylor ends an affair with the wife of his best friend, Tory, and knowing Tory’s anger-management issues, he retreats to the California desert town of Twentynine Palms to let the metaphorical dust settle. There he promptly begins an affair with Mona, a young mother of two. But Tory arrives in the town bent...