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THE HOMESMAN A NOVEL 1ST EDITION PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Glendon Swarthout | 9781476754260 | | | | | The Homesman A Novel 1st edition PDF Book Media Tie In. Claudia Puig with USA Today wrote: "Set on the Great Plains in the mids, 'The Homesman' aims for a story that's poignant and told sparely, but comes across as mawkish, tedious and self-indulgent. Swank brings a gravitas to her character that is undermined when some of her antics are played for laughs. Swarthout generally did well in school, especially in English. Today when I was looking for comparisons for my western, so I could say, if you like THIS you might like my western romance, somebody came back and said, "Unforgiven was written by a guy who was influenced by Gwendon Swarthout, who write The Shootist and The Homesman. T he novel could be classified as a western, but the action, taking place a decade or two before the Civil War, is not about any usual taming or settling of the west but rather the unsettling of it, at least for four women. The stories of the four women are individually laid out by Swarthout and each is more poignantly told and tragically realized than the last. Mar 27, Tracy rated it really liked it. John Freeman Because of its limited distribution, I was lucky to catch this at our local "art" theatre. He is a master of "show, don't tell," and the effect hits like dynamite. Overview Soon to be a major film directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones and co-starring Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, and John Lithgow, this classic Western novel captures the devastating realities of early frontier life through the eyes of one extraordinary woman. This story promises to be an excellent movie, particularly given the acting talent involved, and the keen eye of Tommy Lee Jones directing. There are no positive depictions of women in this book. Mary Bee Cuddy is a woman possessed of that strength and fortitude required to thrive in a solitary existence on a prairie farmstead. What the directing side of Jones does best is to cede the spotlight to his star. Even her helplessness around the camp site got to me. Goofs from Past Winners. Then the scenes began to unfold that appeared to be just that, scenes in a movie. But since I was somewhat entertained, I continued reading. My thoughts As the ferry departs further out onto the river, Briggs' dancing continues and Mary Bee's grave marker is shaken closer to the unguarded edge of the deck by the commotion. With the conspicuous exception of A Christmas Gift , all of Swarthout's novels are infused with a sardonic spirit, usually in respect to examples of the cruelty and viciousness of which man is capable. The Homesman A Novel 1st edition Writer Both photos are of Mr. And--it gets worse. That said, I found this to be a great read and I will look forward to the film that Tommy Lee Jones directed. He had to be a man and she had to be a woman, made from his rib" WTF?!!!! A successful writer at Nationweek, America's second largest newsweekly, she makes her living by being, as she says, a relentless snoop, but she never The remarkabble male and female lead characters could make young actors' careers today if the rights to the book were still available. August 26, She is competent and resolute, and provides for herself in a most competent manner. Good read, interesting story, yes. More filters. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. I'll likely give the movie 5 stars. Guilty about having rejected Mary Bee's proposal, he has a wooden slab engraved with her name and plans to mark her grave with it. No winners here and not your typical western novel. My book club is planning to see the movie when it comes out I think there will be a limited release Nov. Mentally ill men are likely to have died of exposure, disease, or death at the hands of fellow settlers who felt threatened by their presence. For all that a portrayal of the madness of women on the frontier could have been a feminist story, the way in which this is written makes it seem that women, when faced with the same hardships as men, revert to one of two states - childlike innocence or harpy like violence. I would class this as a western noir novel, not your standard oater by any means. Apparently the author researched this book in depth, but I don't see how as the history books that I've read for my own novel show that women not only bore a lot on the frontier, but many managed to do so competently and well. After a promising start and some pretty decent exploration of what it was like for these women, the status quo is re-established and all the good work that Swarthout has put in is nearly undone. Other Editions Add to Wishlist. I only know that they had become tame around cavemen because the cavemen would throw out their left over meat bones, which the wolves would devour. Mar 06, Debra rated it liked it. Retrieved May 19, Then she walked barefoot into the snow to the outhouse and tossed her newborn into its putrid sewage below, headfirst. Adult Fiction. A "homesman" is chosen to take them back east, across the Missouri, where volunteers will see that each makes it back to her extended family. I didn't have any expectations about this book, and ended up liking it much more than I thought I would. The author tries to explain this away with prose, but it just doesn't ring true. MGM 's quick movie version, Where the Boys Are , became the highest-grossing low- budget movie in the studio's history. Swarthout writes across a number of genres but it is his western that were made into movies. I would have gone mad out here as some women, and even men, had. Why is this book popular? Now, as to whether Swarthout has honored that agreement in The Homesman , all I can tell you is that you'll be faced with this question if you read it and, for that reason alone, I have to suggest that anyone who loves literary fiction should do so. However, this reader has certain standards that this book did not achieve. The Homesman A Novel 1st edition Reviews Briggs vows to push on, so Cuddy stays behind and agrees to catch up with him. Don't want to spoil the book for anyone, so will just say that, unfortunately, one of the two major protagonists acted in ways very inconsistent with the author's development of the character. Sep 06, Cmv rated it it was ok. Men like Briggs survive, dancing away from unintended carnage, but to what purpose? She makes dinner for her neighbor Bob Giffen, and sings to him, but when she proposes he turns her down saying she is "plain, and too bossy"; he then leaves to find a wife back east. Even so, it was obvious that this story came from the pen of a master and I wasted no time getting a copy of the book from our local library. This story is about a homesteading woman an ex-school teacher and "spinster" who volunteers to take 4 women who have each had a mental breakdown after a harsh winter back east to be cared for by family. She is competent and resolute, and provides for herself in a most competent manner. Only Cuddy, whose maddness is seemingly attributed to her loneliness her lack of MALE company comes close to being accurate. Because at that point in this otherwise nicely told tale, the author pulled the rug out from under me. Based off a true story, a group of Jewish partisans fight the Nazis behind enemy Refresh and try again. Having read the book I can say that the film mostly sticks to it faithfully - however, as I really, really didn't enjoy the film and read the book to see if I was missing something vital, that meant I didn't enjoy it much. The shepherds of these lost souls are a hard-beaten frontier survivor named Mary Bee Cuddy and an even harder-beaten frontiersman by the name of George Briggs. I assure you, there are other ways that God may have also intended. EuropaCorp Virginie Besson-Silla. I understand this book was made into a movie, first in starring Paul Newman and again in Spur Award for Best Novel of the West To view it, click here. Retrieved April 17, For the most part the movie was pretty faithful to the main plot of the book. Willow Run , a story about people working in a bomber factory, was published after a rewrite to mediocre reviews. And I knew, yes, I could write the hell out of this script This is not exactly a review, rather, a strange connection for me. Some of these columns were published in a book of the same title by Doubleday in Average rating 3. It just reads as 'here's this woman who is successful and prosperous as a farmer without a man to tell her what to do, but she kills herself anyway because no man will have such a 'bossy' women. A strong, single woman living on the frontier agrees to be the homesman and escort the A very well written story about the hard life faced by the pioneers on the frontier.