The Homesman - Softcover

Swarthout, Glendon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451164296 ISBN 13: 9780451164292

Publisher: Signet, 1990

Synopsis

Four women in the isolated frontier territory go mad, and it is up to the unlikely combination of homesteader Mary Bee Cuddy and ne'er-do-well Briggs to escort them east to safety

About this title

About the Author:

Glendon Swarthout wrote sixteen novels, many of which were bestsellers and were made into films, among them Seventh Cavalry, They Came to Cordura, Where the Boys Are, Bless the Beasts & Children, and A Christmas to Remember. He was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and won a number of other awards, including the Western Writers Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Review:

"I tell friends what The Homesman is about and their eyes open wide and they can't wait to read it. And that's just the plot. Swarthout puts you there, in time and place. I love the way he writes." (Elmore Leonard)

"Totally involving from its very first words... a dangerous journey into the soul, an exploration of the relationships of men and women to each other, to their environments and—ultimately most devastatingly—to themselves." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

"One of Swarthout'sb best... An absorbing epic of endurance." (Kirkus)

"No reader should even attempt to guess what happens. Surprise piles upon surprise... Glendon Swarthout has honed writing excellence to a nearly unsurpassable level... A powerful novel... A classic of vivid realism and gripping storytelling." (Associated Press)

"A finely crafted novel... told with smooth economy... re-creates a seamless and sccurate territorial Nebraska... with character so real the reader resents it when one dies." (Kansas City Star)

About this edition

• Publisher: Signet
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0451164296
• ISBN 13: 9780451164292
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 317