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1Podras.
LOA has announced the contents of The Western: Four Classic Novels of the 1940s & 50s. They are:
The article points out that movies have been made of all four novels. I've seen all but Warlock. The Ox-Bow Incident with Henry Fonda is superb, the The Searchers is one of the few John Wayne movies that rises above the level of mere entertainment.
The announcement can be found here.The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter van Tilburg Clark Shane by Jack Schaefer The Searchers by Alan Le May Warlock by Oakley Hall
The article points out that movies have been made of all four novels. I've seen all but Warlock. The Ox-Bow Incident with Henry Fonda is superb, the The Searchers is one of the few John Wayne movies that rises above the level of mere entertainment.
2elenchus
Nice collection, notably nothing from Lamour, Leonard, or McMurtry or others I would assume are big names. Perhaps this is a toe in the waters, perhaps volumes dedicated to specific authors still coming. But from the title, I'd expect at least another multi-author volume for novels published later (very possibly including the editor's own work, The Assassination of Jesse James ).
3jroger1
>2 elenchus:
LOA has already published a volume of Elmore Leonard’s westerns.
LOA has already published a volume of Elmore Leonard’s westerns.
4elenchus
>3 jroger1:
Oops! And that's probably where I even learned of Leonard's Western work, I've not read any and think of his noir fiction foremost. Appreciate the correction.
Oops! And that's probably where I even learned of Leonard's Western work, I've not read any and think of his noir fiction foremost. Appreciate the correction.
5euphorb
>2 elenchus:
This volume has selections from the 1940s and 1950s. McMurty's first writings appeared in the 1960s, and the best of them not until the 1980s and 1990s.
This volume has selections from the 1940s and 1950s. McMurty's first writings appeared in the 1960s, and the best of them not until the 1980s and 1990s.
6Podras.
I'd like to think LOA will do a volume collecting earlier westerns. I'm thinking in particular of Zane Grey and Owen Wister. Their appeal to me is primarily emotional because I have fond recollections of reading them when I was in my teens. I wasn't all that attuned to whatever literary merit they may have back then, and I'm not that great a judge today either. However, both authors influenced later writers of the genre.
7Truett
Podras: Thanks , again, for the list -- and the link. I'm thrilled at the selections, and more than a bit embarrassed to say I've never read them but I HAVE (like many others, perhaps) seen the movies. Can't wait to get the collection next year!
Elenchus: I wouldn't mind seeing L'amour in a collection, too. And Zane Grey (although that would have to be a retro collection). And, eventually, McMurtry. And, yeah, Ron Hansen's western work should eventually be considered. Not just THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD, but also DESPERADOES and THE KID (a more recent publication).
In regards to the modern western: check out DOC and EPITAPH: A NOVEL OF THE OK CORRAL by Maria Doria Russell.
Like Ron Hansen (who has written his fair share of mainstream books; check out MARRIETTE IN ECSTASY), Russell has written novels which fall into various categories (the forthcoming WOMEN OF COPPER COUNTY is an historical mainstream book), like THE SPARROW, CHILDREN OF GOD, THREAD OF GRACE and DREAMERS OF THE DAY.
P.S. Hadn't read much about Walter Van Tilburg Clark, but now that I know of his other work -- especially THE TRACK OF THE CAT -- I'm gonna have to,um, track more of it down. Incidentally, THE TRACK OF THE CAT was filmed by the same director who brought THE OXBOW INCIDENT to the cinema. And while the latter film has always been thought of as a classic, "Track of the Cat" is only just starting to be seen as such.
Elenchus: I wouldn't mind seeing L'amour in a collection, too. And Zane Grey (although that would have to be a retro collection). And, eventually, McMurtry. And, yeah, Ron Hansen's western work should eventually be considered. Not just THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD, but also DESPERADOES and THE KID (a more recent publication).
In regards to the modern western: check out DOC and EPITAPH: A NOVEL OF THE OK CORRAL by Maria Doria Russell.
Like Ron Hansen (who has written his fair share of mainstream books; check out MARRIETTE IN ECSTASY), Russell has written novels which fall into various categories (the forthcoming WOMEN OF COPPER COUNTY is an historical mainstream book), like THE SPARROW, CHILDREN OF GOD, THREAD OF GRACE and DREAMERS OF THE DAY.
P.S. Hadn't read much about Walter Van Tilburg Clark, but now that I know of his other work -- especially THE TRACK OF THE CAT -- I'm gonna have to,um, track more of it down. Incidentally, THE TRACK OF THE CAT was filmed by the same director who brought THE OXBOW INCIDENT to the cinema. And while the latter film has always been thought of as a classic, "Track of the Cat" is only just starting to be seen as such.
8Truett
In anticipation of reading this volume next year, I've started watching the film adaptations (also watched "Track of the Cat", because the novel it is based on sounds great). I noticed that the film of THE OXBOW INCIDENT has more of "hollywood" feel about its narrative. In the film,there seems to be more justification made for the mob assuming the three victims were guilty, than was in the novel (not entirely certain, since I haven't read the book, only a dubious wiki summation). And the character of the semi-preacher, even though played by an African American, is cringe-worthy as written AND as acted. Here's hoping the character as written in the novel has more dignity (the film version of THE TRACK OF THE CAT has the same problem, but with an Indian character). Other than that, the films still hold up very well (and then some). Re-watching "Warlock" and "Shane" and "The Searchers" next, to see how they fare after not seeing them for five more more years.
Though I'm pretty sure it won't happen, in the best of all worlds, WARLOCK -- in the forthcoming collection of Western novels in 2020 -- would be preceded by Thomas Pynchon's short essay from 2013. I had no idea the book became something of a cult amongst some college kids, or that it was up for the Pulitzer.
Though I'm pretty sure it won't happen, in the best of all worlds, WARLOCK -- in the forthcoming collection of Western novels in 2020 -- would be preceded by Thomas Pynchon's short essay from 2013. I had no idea the book became something of a cult amongst some college kids, or that it was up for the Pulitzer.
