About this title: Set in west Texas in 1906, this novel is by an award-winning author of westerns, and has been made into a film starring Tommy Lee Jones, Sam Shepherd and Sissy Spacek. As the world moves relentlessly into the machine age, Hewey Calloway is trying to remain a cowboy on horseback.
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Texas Christian Univ. Press
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780912646978ISBN:0912646977
Description: Grade: C. Catalog: Fiction Western Synopsis: 257 pages. Change was gnawing at the edges of the open land. And a veteran saddle bum named Hewey Calloway was riding home for a few days' visit-to... read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Poor. It wasn't just a fight for the land or for the future, it was a battle for the heart and soul of a restless man who was everything the West once was-and would never be again! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 306 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Lite Use/Wear read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Book is in very good condition. Cover and pages are clean, binding is tight. We ship daily, Satisfaction Guaranteed. read more
Description: [0-441-29857-5] 1987, 3rd printing. (Mass market paperback)...Near very good, cocked, creases.......Also writes as Lee McElroy....(Western) read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Texas Christian Univ Press, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780912646978ISBN:0912646977
Description: Very Good- 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very clean pages, no markings. A few light corner folds, minor cover wear, light soiling. Trade paperback, 275 pp. read more
"I had never heard of Elmer Kelton until about a month ago when he died at age 90. There was a long write up about him in the Dallas Sunday newspaper by a TCU professor. The afterword in this book was written by U of Texas professor. The Western Writers Association voted him the best western writer of all time. But this book had no violence except one fistfight. (compare to the Sopranos) None of the major characters carried guns.
This book is very funny, although I'm sure not intended as comedy. It has great character development and reminded me of Twain and Tolstoy. The book was a delight, like seeing a Van Gogh painting.
Below is the write up from here in Goodreads.
""Hewey Calloway has a problem. In his West Texas home of 1906, the land of the way of life that he loves are changing too quickly for his taste.Hewey dreams of freedom--he wants only to be a footloose horseback cowboy, endlessly wandering the open range. But the open range of his childhood is slowly disappearing: land is being parceled out, and barbed-wire fences are spring up all over. As if that weren't enough, cars and other machines are invading Hewey's simple cowboy life, stinking up the area and threatening to replace horse travel. As Hewey struggles against the relentless stream of "progress", he comes to realize that the simple life of his childhood is gone, that a man can't live a life whose time has passed, and that every choice he makes--even those that lead to happiness--requires a sacrifice."""
"One of the men this book is dedicated to was very special to me during my childhood. He made a big impact on my life. During the drought of the 1950s, my Daddy left to go work in the oil patch leaving my Mom at home with 3 little girls. Raymond Glasscock stopped by every day to check to be sure we were all OK. Mr. Kelton worked with him on the McElroy ranch.... I picked up my copy at one of Mr. Kelton's book signings held at the Cactus Bookstore in San Angelo, TX."
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