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Glendon Swarthout (1918–1992)

Autor de Bless the Beasts and Children

34+ Obras 1,320 Miembros 44 Reseñas 2 Preferidas

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Obras de Glendon Swarthout

The Homesman (1988) 271 copias
The Shootist (1975) 215 copias
A Christmas Gift (1992) 55 copias
Whichaway (1967) 39 copias
The Melodeon (1900) 36 copias
They Came to Cordura (1958) 31 copias
Where the Boys Are (1960) 28 copias
The Tin Lizzie Troop (1972) 25 copias
Skeletons (1979) 17 copias
Ghost & Magic Saber (1963) 13 copias
The Old Colts (1985) 12 copias
They Came to Cordura [1959 film] (1958) — Autor — 11 copias
Luck and Pluck (1973) 11 copias
The Cadillac Cowboys (1964) 8 copias
Easterns and Westerns (2001) 4 copias
Welcome to Thebes (1962) 4 copias
Break-Out (1966) 3 copias
Cadbury's Coffin (1982) 3 copias
Whales to see the (1975) 3 copias
Divida de Honra (2015) 3 copias
11H14 (Totem t. 150) (2020) 3 copias
Loveland (1971) 3 copias
TV Thompson (1972) 2 copias
Une gachette (1976) 1 copia
The Button Boat (1969) 1 copia

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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 reseñas más. | Mar 27, 2024 |
 
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markm2315 | 10 reseñas más. | 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.
… (más)
 
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LyndaInOregon | otra reseña | 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 reseñas más. | Mar 2, 2023 |

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