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Cargando... Utah Blaine (1954)por Louis L'Amour
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Completely not my thing. I was bored by all the fights, the beat him in a fair fight and he'll be your friend fistfight, all the gun fights, and the women being girls, western men respecting good women. It's so clear this is the template from which Elmer Kelton's stories derive. At least it's rather short, though it didn't seem so while I was getting though it. ( ) I was pleasantly surprised by this story by L'Amour first published in 1954 under a pseudonym he used for many of his early works - Jim Mayo. I read a rather in depth introduction to the author in another book I have after I finished this. L'Amour didn't exactly have an easy time of it with his early writing. His huge success came later in life. About the time of this novel John Wayne optioned one of his short stories and expanded it into the film Hondo which helped L'Amour but even still didn't turn him into an "overnight success." This guy worked hard at his writing. The story 'Utah Blaine' has one of L'Amour's recurring themes - range war - but the characters in here are pretty well done and even when not fleshed out they are defined well enough that keeping track of people was not a problem. If I was an editor I would have a few suggestions to make this better but the basic story here is handled well. Our 'hero' Utah Blaine may be a bit too superhuman, but he isn't superman. He's a good guy who knows the difference between right and wrong and takes on an underdog role to help a rancher being lynched by a rather large number of vigilante neighbors who are jealous of his land. The west is clearly still wild here. L'Amour is very good at descriptive writing of the landscape. You can picture in your mind's eye the places he describes. There's a touch of romance in the story and more than a few deaths by the end, but I think the end can be described as a happy ending. Standard L'amour -- gunfights, fistfights, and righting of wrongs. Utah Blaine is a penniless drifter who encounters a hanging party. He manages to rescue the old man being lynching, and learns that the gentleman has been targeted by his fellow ranchers due his ownership of a much-coveted piece of land. Blaine volunteers to act as the rancher's agent/segundo and reclaim the property on his behalf. As is typical with L'amour, violence ensues. The plot is fairly simple, with all odds against him, Blaine does much riding from here to there, encountering obstacles and fair maidens (both in distress and plotting evil). Of course the side of right triumphs in the end. It's a fast, predictable, and still highly enjoyable read. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Fiction.
Western.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:Colonel Utah Blaine, held captive by the Army of the Revolution, broke out of jail and headed north from Mexico with nothing but the clothes on his back. Then he found new trouble struggling at the end of a nooseâ??and stepped in just in time to save the life of a Texas rancher. The would-be executioners were the rancherâ??s own men, looking to steal his land. Now Utah has a unique proposition: Have the wealthy Texan play dead, introduce himself as the spreadâ??s new foreman, and take care of the outlaws one by one. The wage to fight another manâ??s war? A hundred a month plus expenses. The cost of falling in love while he earns that wage? It wasnâ??t exactly part of the original agreement, but Utah will soon find outâ??unless the bad guys No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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