Chicago Cowboy

About the Book

Chicago Cowboy is the epic life story of violin prodigy Jeorges Czarek, bold, sweeping with well-crafted intimate detail about the love affairs and personal and musical development (aided by several ladies) of this gifted genius barely sixteen when he is spirited away to Texas to escape a possible paternity action by the irate father of a beauteous young admirer.

There for two years, Jeorges becomes a cowboy on a family friend’s ranch and is swept into a totally new life of western adventures in the wild, developing turn-of-the-century Texas.

Eighteen-year-old Jeorges Czarek after returning home is propelled forward when Chicago mob boss Vito De Lanos enchanting, but untalented, daughter Anna takes Jeorges’ formal musical education in hand by enrolling him in Chicago’s prestigious Ziegfeld School of Music, catapulting him to the top in world music as a concert violinist, conductor and Hollywood movie composer.

Still with no children after a lifetime of zestful romances, Jeorges finds himself seeking new meaning to his life thinking that an heir to his talent might be salvation for his troubled mind.

A dramatic conclusion resolves this tangram with a surprise find in his quest for musical immortality.

About the Author

Donald Krist has been a newspaper reporter, editor and successful public relations executive. A journalism graduate of Drake University, he is the author of the recently acclaimed short story collection Lost Chameleons and Other Tales, and Kiss’d To Sleep, a brilliant first novel (Writers Club Press).