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The American Western is best-selling author Larry Watson's forte, and in this, his tenth novel, he has generated his most vivid, genuine antihero yet in Calvin Sidey, a man caught in a misconception. Calvin Sidey - steely, hardened, with his own private code - is one of the previous cowboys. It's the 1960s, and he's living off of the grid in a trailer on the prairie when his adult son, Bill, seeks his help. A usually absentee father and grandfather, Calvin nevertheless agrees to stay along with his grandchildren for weekly. He decamps for his son's house in the small town where he once was a mythic shape, and quickly enough problems come up: A boy's attentions to 17-year-old Ann are increasingly aggressive, and a group of reckless kids portend danger for 11-year-old Will. Calvin knows only one way to solve problems: the Old Western way, where ultimatums are issued and your firearm is always packed. Within the changing culture of the 1960s, Calvin isn't simply a relic; he's a outdoors card. At the same time, his old-school ways exert a robust effect on those around him, from widowed neighbor Beverly Lodge, who feels herself slipping for him and wishes to participate his life, to his grandchildren. Ann and can see in their grandfather a man who brings a sudden, if shocking, order with their lives, as Calvin terrorizes those who have often terrorized them. With the sharp, restrained prose for which Larry Watson is revered, As Good as Gone is a tale of a man increasingly at possibilities with the globe. That is Larry Watson at his best.
