The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout

The Shootist is my favorite John Wayne movie, and until recently, I didn’t realize it was based upon the book by Glendon Swarthout, I read The Homesman by Swarthout a few months ago, and was blown away by the outstanding writing and character development, It wasn’t what you expect in a western, The Shootist was every bit as good and was also a dark story – this time about John Books

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Overview

The Shootist: Swarthout, Glendon, Swarthout, Miles

“The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout is the taleof the Old West’s version of the modern ‘hit man’, It is a splendid story, well-told and with a really satisfying ending,” Charleston, South Carolina Evening Post, From the Inside Flap The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a man of principle and the only surviving gunfighter in a vanishing American West, He rides into El Paso in the year 1901, on the

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Glendon Swarthout Author of The Homesman

Glendon Fred Swarthout was an American writer, Some of his best known novels were made into films of the same title, Where the Boys Are, The Shootist and They Came To Cordura, Also wrote under Glendon Fred Swarthout, Twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction,

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Vue d’ensemble

Jeff Arnold’s West: The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout

The Shootist flashed into Glendon Swarthout‘s imagination early one Arizona evening in 1973 while shaving before going out in Scottsdale, their hometown, My dad told my mother, Kathryn, “Hold on, I just had a terrific idea, We’re gonna be a little late for the party,” He then sat down at his desk and in about forty-five minutes outlined the basic story of what would become two years later, one

The Shootist: Amazon,co,uk: Glendon Swarthout, Miles

Miles Swarthout is the author of The Sergeant’s Lady and the editor of Glendon Swarthout’s short story collection, Easterns and Westerns, He is also a screenwriter who adapted his father’s book for the movie The Shootist, Tell the Publisher! I’d like to read this book on Kindle Don’t have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App, Kindle Storyteller 2021

The Shootist

“The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout is the tale of the Old West’s version of the modern ‘hit man,’ It is a splendid story, well-told and with a really satisfying ending,” Charleston, South Carolina Evening Post From the Inside Flap, The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a man of principle and the only surviving gunfighter in a vanishing American West, He rides into El Paso in the year 1901, on

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The Shootist Whichaway with Kathryn Swarthout A Christmas Gift The Eagle and the Iron Cross Pinch Me, I Must Be Dreaming Ghost and the Magic Saber The Homesman, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988 – This novel is a head-long narrative of the frontier in the 1850s, and of two ornery, strong willed individuals – one a woman homesteading on her onw, the other a drifter and claimjumper – yoked together in

Glendon Swarthout

Glendon Swarthout, Writer: The Homesman, Novelist Glendon Swarthout had the widest literary range of any American author of his generation, writing 16 novels, which ranged from dramas to comedies to romances and mysteries, and another 6 novellas for young adults with his wife, Kathryn, Many of Glendon‘s novels became international bestsellers and book club editions, reprinted in

The Shootist

The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a man of principle and the only surviving gunfighter in a vanishing American West, He rides into El Paso in the year 1901, on the day of Queen Victoria’s demise, there to be told by a doctor that he must soon confront the greatest Shootist of all: Death himself, In such a showdown against such an antagonist, J, B, Books cannot win,

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Life

Glendon Swarthout

Novelist Glendon Swarthout had the widest literary range of any American author of his generation, writing 16 novels, which ranged from dramas to comedies to romances and mysteries, and another 6 novellas for young adults with his wife, Kathryn, Many of Glendon‘s novels became international bestsellers and book club editions, reprinted in innumerable paperback editions, some still available in