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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 ...
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 ...
Nov 13, 2014 · In 'The Homesman,' A Most Unromantic American West Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones play two very different people taking a dangerous trip across the arid plains in a beautifully photographed film.
Nov 14, 2014 · Most basically, the journey Briggs and Mary Bee undertake is not further into the West but back toward the East. It is a trek that originates in failure, passes through frustration and concludes ...
Nov 13, 2014 · Tommy Lee Jones’ latest directorial effort, The Homesman, is a moving portrait of the harsh unpredictability of pioneer life in the mid-19th century American West told from the viewpoint of a ...
Parents need to know that The Homesman is a Western (based on a novel by Glendon Swarthout) with disturbing material, mostly related to three frontier women who go insane. They scream, thrash, and moan, and one cuts herself with a needle. One throws a baby away in an outhouse, and other dead babies are also….
Dec 5, 2014 · "The Homesman" is no such Western. Starring and directed by Tommy Lee Jones -- who also co-wrote the screenplay, based on the 1988 novel by Glendon Swarthout -- its version of the American ...
