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   Feb 11, 2014 · The Homesman will one fine day be made into the extraordinary film it cries out to be, but until then remains Glendon Swarthout's other Western masterpiece, along with The Shootist, which became John Wayne's final film and also won a Spur Award as the Best Western Novel of 1975 from the Western Writers of America.The Homesman is a devastingly ...

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   Mar 6, 1988 · The Homesman, Glendon Swarthout's award winning novel called the Best Western Novel of the year back in 1988, is a deeply moving tale, a riveting thriller and an American West adventure in the style reminiscent of Larry McMurtry. Swarthout is a gifted storyteller with a keen eye for detail, drawing an authentic narrative of the treacherous ...

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   • Author: Glendon Swarthout

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   Apr 15, 2021 · Midway through Glendon Swarthout’s 1988 novel, The Homesman, Mary Bee Cuddy wakes up and, from her bedroll by the frame wagon, hears the good-for-nothing cull Briggs, the claim-jumper she saved from hanging, shouting, “Whooeee!”. There, by the fire, he is dancing. It astonishes her. Strong drink, she supposed, affected different men ...

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   The Homesman was first printed in 1988, and is highly worthy of its 2014 rerelease. Swarthout’s prose and plot flow like the swirling Missouri River, deceptively smooth but with dangerous undercurrents. His characters are heart-wrenchingly believable because they are drawn from true-life pioneer experiences. Mary Bee Cuddy is simultaneously ...

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   Now a major motion picture directed by Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman is a devastating story of early pioneers in 1850s American West. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of: the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by a life of bitter hardship. A “homesman” must be found to escort a handful of them back East to a sanitarium.

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   What is a Homesman based on?

   • Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman is a devastating story of early pioneers in 1850s American West. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of: the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by a life of bitter hardship. A “homesman” must be found to escort a handful of them back East to a sanitarium.

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   Is the Homesman a good book?

   • The problem with The Homesman is essentially its switch in focus in the last third of the book. The majority of the book is a very interesting (if somewhat simplistic) look at the experiences of the forgotten frontier women. For much of the novel Swarthout gives voice to a group that is so often ignored.

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   What is the story of The Homesman about?

   • The Homesman is the story of the four insane women and of Mary Bee and her own travels along the edge of insanity, her own travels into the void. But it is also the story of the husbands of the four women who, whether loving or abusing to their wives, are also beaten down by the land they have sought to conquer.

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   What does a Homesman do?

   • A “homesman” must be found to escort a handful of them back East to their families or to a Sanitarium. This novel has a wonderful vivid sense of time and place and takes the reader back to a time in history where hardship, bravery and loneliness went with setting up homes on the plains and raising a family.

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