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"My God, it's refreshing to read a novel as good and rank and honest as TRY." ----Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

“Powerful and passionate…a wonderfully insightful tour of the world of rodeo cowboys and the women who care for them.”  Madison Smartt Bell, author of WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
 
“Lily Burana has written a feisty, funny, sexy novel about romantic love, family love, the love of rodeo, and, above all, the marvelous oddities of the western landscape that brings these loves together.  Daryl Heatherly is a captivating, endearing narrator and her leading man, J.W. Jarrett, will charm the chaps off of the most urbane reader.  TRY is a delight and Burana deserves a gold belt buckle for taking us along for the ride.”—Meghan Daum, author of THE QUALITY OF LIFE
 
“…the perfect best friend…reading (Burana) is like taking a road trip with her.”—The Austin Chronicle
 
"It's hard not to feel affection for a writer who starts her first novel with the sentence: 'Before I left Cheyenne, I set my ex-boyfriend on fire.'"
--New York Post
 
"[Burana] earns her spurs by capturing ...the heartbreak of the rodeo circuit for both cowboys and cowgirls."
--Washington Post
 
"Burana cuts her own path through the modern western landscape."
--Library Journal
 
" A ...sweet, hard-not-to-like debut set amid the dusty, manly rodeo circuit...A touching winter-spring romance set amid full Western regalia."
--Kirkus Reviews
 
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"My God, it's refreshing to read a novel as good and rank and honest as TRY." ----Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

“Powerful and passionate…a wonderfully insightful tour of the world of rodeo cowboys and the women who care for them.”  Madison Smartt Bell, author of WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
 
“Lily Burana has written a feisty, funny, sexy novel about romantic love, family love, the love of rodeo, and, above all, the marvelous oddities of the western landscape that brings these loves together.  Daryl Heatherly is a captivating, endearing narrator and her leading man, J.W. Jarrett, will charm the chaps off of the most urbane reader.  TRY is a delight and Burana deserves a gold belt buckle for taking us along for the ride.”—Meghan Daum, author of THE QUALITY OF LIFE
 
“…the perfect best friend…reading (Burana) is like taking a road trip with her.”—The Austin Chronicle
 
"It's hard not to feel affection for a writer who starts her first novel with the sentence: 'Before I left Cheyenne, I set my ex-boyfriend on fire.'"
--New York Post
 
"[Burana] earns her spurs by capturing ...the heartbreak of the rodeo circuit for both cowboys and cowgirls."
--Washington Post
 
"Burana cuts her own path through the modern western landscape."
--Library Journal
 
" A ...sweet, hard-not-to-like debut set amid the dusty, manly rodeo circuit...A touching winter-spring romance set amid full Western regalia."
--Kirkus Reviews
 
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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press (July 11, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 031235505X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312355050
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #390,518 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written AND a page turner, July 12, 2006
By D. Desalvo "stratchick" (Hoboken, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews
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I love a book that lets me live somewhere I never could have gone otherwise. TRY brings the world of rodeo cowboys and the women who love them to life. You're not gonna want to leave. I also love a writer who can really WRITE, and Lily Burana is a marvel.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly Smart and Incredibly Hot!, July 28, 2006
By Martina Hechter (Alpine, NJ) - See all my reviews
Nerve has an excerpt of TRY online, and I ordered it because I thought this would be a hot, naughty read. It is sexy, but it's so much more. So romantic and uncynical and full of scenes that transported me out of my life and into the West, with sights, sounds, and subtle details. "Trite" if you don't like romance, maybe. Lent out my copy already and know I'll have to beg to get it back. Guys might not like the book, but any girl who's ever been she-masculated will get it, devour it, and love it.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Wow, Did I read the same book?, July 20, 2008
By Deb "ddoo" (Austin, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
Looking over a few of the other reviews I wonder if I did read the same book as others! I am an avid reader, LOVE chic lit, the sexier the better.

I went to great lengths finding and ordering this book in time for a recent trip to Colorado. I always get in the mood for good 'cowboy' love stories when I am in Colorado. I couldn't wait to get into this book and was sorely disappointed once I started!! I found it quite boring, not very believable and quite hard to finish. I was honestly glad when it was done and sorry I wasted the effort to get it, the cash to purchase it and most of all, the time in reading it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys....
lily burana gives the reader a bird's eye view of the rodeo life in try, and it is startling. try is the story of daryl, a denver painter, whom after a bad breakup, decides to go... Read more
Published 17 months ago by a_poet_grows_in_brooklyn

5.0 out of 5 stars refreshing and accurate
as a barrel racer, it was pleasant and refreshing to read a book that accurately portrays the sport of Rodeo as accurately as Try has. Read more
Published on August 20, 2007 by Aimee L. Gilmore

4.0 out of 5 stars Somebody pinch me
This book was outstanding. I find myself trying to find the nearest rodeo.
Published on May 30, 2007 by K. McComb

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
I picked the book up one morning and couldn't put it down. I finished it late that night. I fell head over heals for J. W. Jarrett. Read more
Published on April 14, 2007 by Angela Trapp

5.0 out of 5 stars Cowboys, Rodes, and Bikini Bullriding..
What more could someone ask for in a book. This is one of the most refreshing books I've read in a long time. I could not put it down. Read more
Published on November 28, 2006 by Jana

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
Now I may be a Texan but I know nothing about rodeo, except that bit about 8 seconds, and I really was never that interested. BUT this book is fabulous. Read more
Published on October 18, 2006 by fairie girl

3.0 out of 5 stars Feel-good, western chick lit
TRY is the somewhat unlikely story of twenty-three year old Daryl Heatherly, a fledgling artist on the rebound from a lengthy, but failed, relationship, becoming involved with a... Read more
Published on September 13, 2006 by J. Grattan

5.0 out of 5 stars Try succeeds
I can think of a dozen reasons to love this book -- its vivid, lively, sometimes bone-crunching depiction of the world of cowboys and rodeos, its frank, fearless eroticism, a... Read more
Published on August 31, 2006 by Mary Elizabeth Williams

5.0 out of 5 stars Could I be her?
I am not much of a reader and when TRY fell in my hands I read it in about 9 hours. I could not put the book down. Read more
Published on August 11, 2006 by TexasCricket

5.0 out of 5 stars Rugged masculinity mixed with feminine determination~ a perfect combination
After Strip City, I didnt think that it could be done but Lily Burana truly out did herself on this one. Read more
Published on August 11, 2006 by Charidie L. Knapp

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