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Glendon Swarthout (1918–1992)

Forfatter af Bless the Beasts and Children

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Værker af Glendon Swarthout

Bless the Beasts and Children (1970) 498 eksemplarer
The Homesman (1988) 271 eksemplarer
The Shootist (1975) 215 eksemplarer
A Christmas Gift (1992) 55 eksemplarer
The Melodeon (1900) 36 eksemplarer
They Came to Cordura (1958) 31 eksemplarer
Where the Boys Are (1960) 28 eksemplarer
The Tin Lizzie Troop (1972) 25 eksemplarer
Skeletons (1979) 17 eksemplarer
Ghost & Magic Saber (1963) 13 eksemplarer
The Old Colts (1985) 12 eksemplarer
They Came to Cordura [1959 film] (1958) — Forfatter — 11 eksemplarer
Luck and Pluck (1973) 11 eksemplarer
The Cadillac Cowboys (1964) 8 eksemplarer
The Eagle and the Iron Cross (1966) 8 eksemplarer
Easterns and Westerns (2001) 4 eksemplarer
Welcome to Thebes (1962) 4 eksemplarer
Break-Out (1966) 3 eksemplarer
Cadbury's Coffin (1982) 3 eksemplarer
Whales to see the (1975) 3 eksemplarer
Divida de Honra (2015) 3 eksemplarer
11H14 (Totem t. 150) (2020) 3 eksemplarer
El pistolero & Llegaron a Cordura (1900) 3 eksemplarer
Loveland (1971) 3 eksemplarer
TV Thompson (1972) 2 eksemplarer
Une gachette (1976) 1 eksemplar
Pinch Me I Must Be Dreaming (1994) 1 eksemplar
The Button Boat (1969) 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

The Homesman [2014 film] (2014) — Original book — 36 eksemplarer
Where the Boys Are [1960 film] (2004) — Original book — 18 eksemplarer
The Western Hall of Fame Anthology (1997) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
Bless the Beasts and Children [1971 film] (1971) — Original book — 6 eksemplarer
New World Writing #13: Stories, Poetry, Essays, Drama (1958) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer

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When I first encountered this story, it was in a movie, which I thought was great. That inspired me to look for the original book, which I did and discovered to be an interesting, if not excellent, read.
 
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jwhenderson | 6 andre anmeldelser | Mar 27, 2024 |
 
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markm2315 | 10 andre anmeldelser | Jul 1, 2023 |
Like many avid readers, I maintain a fairly long “wish list” of books, and occasionally when I lay hands on one of them, I have forgotten why I wanted to read it in the first place. Sometimes I’m pleasantly surprised by the oddball and obscure titles; at other times, my response is “what on earth was I thinking?”

Glendon Swarthout’s Cadillac Cowboys is one of the latter.

Basically, it’s a fish-out-of-water tale about a Connecticut college professor who, having overdosed on writings about the American west, uproots his wife and two daughters and moves the family to Arizona in the mid-1960s. But Swarthout’s writing style is so self-consciously cutesy, his main character so condescending, and his portrayal of his new neighbors so mean-spirited, that there’s not much here to enjoy.

As a brief sample: the Cadell family buys "a pseudo-adobe-mock-tile-roofed-baroque-hacienda -- sort of" on Sarcophagus Mountain “at about coph height”. Most of his neighbors in the then-booming Scottsdale area are wealthy transplanted Easterners like himself, who have brought their pre-conceptions, biases, and lifestyle with them, and most of the native Arizonans, regardless of race, are portrayed as ignorant, brutal, drunken, larcenous, or a combination of all four.

Several reviews (including, probably, one that led me to think I wanted to read this) refer to it with phrases like “scathingly funny satire”. Sorry, none of the above.

Don’t waste your time with this.
… (mere)
 
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LyndaInOregon | 1 anden anmeldelse | Mar 15, 2023 |
901. Westerneran är på väg att dö ut. Och så även de hårdföra män som formade denna epok. Till El Paso Ci kommer den ärrade revolvermannen J.B. Brooks inridande för att ta ett sista farväl. Han är svårt sjuk och vill tillbringa sina sista veckor i stillhet. Men Brooks har många fiender och snart flockas ökända revolvermän i staden för att utmana honom på en sista storstilad duell.
 
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CalleFriden | 10 andre anmeldelser | Mar 2, 2023 |

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