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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
- Glendon Swarthout
University of Michigan. Genre. Fiction. Glendon Fred Swarthout (April 8, 1918 – September 23, 1992) was an American writer and novelist. [1] Several of his novels were made into films. Where the Boys Are, and The Shootist, which was John Wayne's last work, are probably the best known.
- Fiction
- Writer, novelist
- English
- University of Michigan
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Oct 23, 2015 · A fine Western novel. The Homesman is a splendid Western novel. Glendon Swarthout wrote four Western tales (that I know of), all made into movies, and with great Western stars too. The first was a post-Custer story, 7th Cavalry, which Columbia made into a fun Randolph Scott oater in 1956. In 1959 Swarthout’s novel of the previous year They ...
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 ...
Nov 4, 2014 · Glendon Swarthout’s novel won both the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award and the Western Heritage Wrangler Award. Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Tommy Lee Jones, THE HOMESMAN is a story of early pioneers in 1850s American West.
