Arizona Time
Subtitle
A Novel and Five Shorts
Dry heat. Drifting sand. Broken people. In "Arizona Time," they weave into a hypnotic haze where the ghost of Tom Mix shares the secrets of the West, an unlikely love takes root and a murderous drug-dealing backpacker synthesizes marijuana and metaphysics into a philosophy for the modern age.
"Arizona Time" is set in the post-frontier American West, a landscape shaped by Larry McMurtry, "Breaking Bad," Sam Shepherd, and Leslie Marmon Silko. It is a classic Western, but like no other Western before.
Struggling photographer Ponder Lee Catan returns to Arizona after heartbreak and finds counsel in strange places. Isabelle Emerson, a glamorous New York art gallery manager, flees west after traumatic horror. Val Anglemann, scion of a long line of frontiersmen, nephew of a U.S. senator and outdoorsman unhinged by drugs, seduces himself into creating a final stand.
Bio
Scott C. Seckel was from Sag Harbor, New York, and earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from Arizona State University in 1990. He lived in Phoenix and worked the last seven years of his life at ASU as a science reporter. He died in May 2022.
