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The Homesman: A Novel Copertina flessibile – 4 novembre 2014

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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.

IN PIONEER NEBRASKA, A WOMAN LEADS WHERE NO MAN WILL GO

Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman is a devastating story of early pioneers in 1850s American West. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of: the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by a life of bitter hardship. A “homesman” must be found to escort a handful of them back East to a sanitarium. When none of the county’s men steps up, the job falls to Mary Bee Cuddy—ex-teacher, spinster, indomitable and resourceful. Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she cannot succeed alone. The only companion she can find is the low-life claim jumper George Briggs. Thus begins a trek east, against the tide of colonization, against hardship, Indian attacks, ice storms, and loneliness—a timeless classic told in a series of tough, fast-paced adventures.

In an unprecedented sweep, Glendon Swarthout’s novel won both the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award and the Western Heritage Wrangler Award. A new afterword by the author’s son Miles Swarthout tells of his parents Glendon and Kathryn’s discovery of and research into the lives of the oft-forgotten frontier women who make The Homesman as moving and believable as it is unforgettable.
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    248 pagine
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    Inglese
  3. Editore
    Simon & Schuster
  4. Data di pubblicazione
    4 novembre 2014
  5. Dimensioni
    13.97 x 1.52 x 21.27 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1501102877
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1501102875
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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.

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  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; Media Tie In edizione (4 novembre 2014)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Copertina flessibile ‏ : ‎ 248 pagine
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501102877
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501102875
  • Peso articolo ‏ : ‎ 221 g
  • Dimensioni ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.52 x 21.27 cm
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Hugh Gray Fraser
5,0 su 5 stelle Historical Research Tells The Truth
Recensito in Canada il 4 agosto 2019
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A grim story of pre-Civil War settlers and the appalling hardships suffered by the women in particular. Fascinating account far more detailed, of course, that the movie based on it. The book confounds the feminist knee jerking that Mary B. Cudy was unique in struggling to manage a claim alone without a husband. In fact she was one of four women staking claims alone. Which makes sense of the fact that settler state of Oregon was the first to give women the vote. Great read and wonderfully researched history.
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5,0 su 5 stelle Maravillosa
Recensito in Messico il 16 giugno 2017
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Excelente pelicula, no tengo mas que decir, magnifica, magnifica, magnifica, no se porque es necesario poner tamtas palabras si a veces conbuna sola se dice todo
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johnnie johnson
5,0 su 5 stelle Book and film - both brilliant
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 17 maggio 2015
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Three or four nights ago, desperate for something on the TV, I stumbled on a film I’d never heard of – ‘The Homesman.’ Despite great reviews since its release last year it was new to me.

But my choice of it was influenced in part by the fact that it was a western, a favourite genre, and also because the great Tommy Lee Jones had a leading role. But what clinched it for me was the trailer. Within half a minute this promised a film of outstanding beauty with long shots of endless prairie, where under Nebraska skies a miniature horse-drawn wagon on its weeks-long trek to Iowa crossed a snowy, deserted, wind-ravaged landscape. Even the interiors of the lonely sod dwellings in this empty land were filmed with such delicacy that you might fancy they were the work of the Old Dutch Masters.

The story tells the tale of a small group of women, weakened by despair and driven insane by the remoteness of their homesteads, by the lack of companionship, by the loss of babies, by the very real fear of wolves in winter, by the fading of a dream, are to be transported back to their homes in the east whence only a few years earlier they had set out as enthusiastic pioneers. This is a truth of the great western migration that seems never before to have been revealed on film. The West wasn’t a Brave New World for everyone. For many beyond those beckoning horizons lay only despair and the death of hope.

A determined Christian lady, Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) living within several miles of these poor abandoned souls, offers to drive them in a wagon across to Iowa. There being no other choice of companion, she enlists the help of ‘a man of low reputation,’ the kind of wandering man who has left his responsibilities behind him, a man who may – or may not - be called George Briggs, who only joins her for the money she will pay him. Their story with all its exciting incidents is wonderfully told both on film and in the book which I have read in one go today. I’m reminded of the two characters in ‘The African Queen’ where a stiff-backed lady (Katherine Hepburn) finds herself in the company of a man of similar low-repute (Humphrey Bogart). They too were on a dangerous journey though good as it was ‘The Homesman’ is an infinitely superior piece of work. It’s a film and a book of great depth.

I give both five stars.
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Miles Swarthout
5,0 su 5 stelle A Western historical masterpiece!
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 25 settembre 2011
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The Homesman won both the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America and the Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame as the Best Western Novel of 1988, a fairly rare sweep of the Western genre awards for one year. This novel was also a Book of the Month Club selection. The Homesman will one fine day be made into the extraordinary film it cries out to be, but until then remains Glendon Swarthout's other Western masterpiece, along with The Shootist, which became John Wayne's final film and also won a Spur Award as the Best Western Novel of 1975 from the Western Writers of America.

The Homesman is a devastingly, humane story of early pioneers in America's West in the 1850's. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of -- the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by that life of bitter hardship. When a nineteen-year-old mother loses her 3 childrento diphtheria in three days, or a woman left alone for two nights has to shoot wolves as they crash through her window, it is no wonder they should lose their minds. After a dreadful winter, the Rev. Dowd finds there are 4 such cases in his parish and, as yet, no asylum.

A "homesman" must be found to escort these women East to civilization. Not a job anyone would volunteer for, it falls to Mary Bee Cuddy, ex-teacher, spinster -- indomitable, resourceful, "plain as an old tin pail." Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she cannot succeed alone -- and the only companion available is as low-life and untrustworthy as may be: "George Briggs" the claim-jumper.

Thus begins a trek East, against the flow of the country, against hardship, Indian attacks, ice storms, loneliness, and the unceasing aggravation of a disparate group of mad women, which provides a series of tough, fast-paced adventures and introduces two wonderful, idiosyncratic characters. This is the tale of their journey, and a tribute to the valor of the men and women who homesteaded the frontier, whether they survived or not. The Homesman is narrative fiction of the first rank. And in Mary Bee Cuddy, Glendon Swarthout has created a portrait of a frontier woman that is as moving and believable as it is unforgettable.

Reviews -- "An epic journey across the plains...It is as good as novels get." Cleveland Plain Dealer

"One of Swarthout's best...An absorbing epic of endurance." Kirkus Reviews

""Glendon Swarthout is a master storyteller...The Homesman is one hell of a ride." Los Angeles Daily News

"No reader should 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

"Captures both the adventurous spirit and realities of frontier life." Booklist, the American Library Association

"Love and madness on the frontier...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 environment and ultimately and most devastatingly -- to themselves...impressive...shattering...convincing...nothing less thana study of the human spirit." Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Swarthout's tale reeks with period atmosphere...A very good story rich in characterization...Pioneer passions...Earthy stuff with which the West was won." El Paso Herald Post

"A classic of Western Americana. Filled with the sights, sounds, and daily trivia of frontier life and peopled with authentic characters...A novel that can't be put down and once finished will not easily be forgotten." Flint, Michigan Journal
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Miles Swarthout
5,0 su 5 stelle A Western historical masterpiece!
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 25 settembre 2011
The Homesman won both the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America and the Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame as the Best Western Novel of 1988, a fairly rare sweep of the Western genre awards for one year. This novel was also a Book of the Month Club selection. The Homesman will one fine day be made into the extraordinary film it cries out to be, but until then remains Glendon Swarthout's other Western masterpiece, along with The Shootist, which became John Wayne's final film and also won a Spur Award as the Best Western Novel of 1975 from the Western Writers of America.

The Homesman is a devastingly, humane story of early pioneers in America's West in the 1850's. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of -- the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by that life of bitter hardship. When a nineteen-year-old mother loses her 3 childrento diphtheria in three days, or a woman left alone for two nights has to shoot wolves as they crash through her window, it is no wonder they should lose their minds. After a dreadful winter, the Rev. Dowd finds there are 4 such cases in his parish and, as yet, no asylum.

A "homesman" must be found to escort these women East to civilization. Not a job anyone would volunteer for, it falls to Mary Bee Cuddy, ex-teacher, spinster -- indomitable, resourceful, "plain as an old tin pail." Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she cannot succeed alone -- and the only companion available is as low-life and untrustworthy as may be: "George Briggs" the claim-jumper.

Thus begins a trek East, against the flow of the country, against hardship, Indian attacks, ice storms, loneliness, and the unceasing aggravation of a disparate group of mad women, which provides a series of tough, fast-paced adventures and introduces two wonderful, idiosyncratic characters. This is the tale of their journey, and a tribute to the valor of the men and women who homesteaded the frontier, whether they survived or not. The Homesman is narrative fiction of the first rank. And in Mary Bee Cuddy, Glendon Swarthout has created a portrait of a frontier woman that is as moving and believable as it is unforgettable.

Reviews -- "An epic journey across the plains...It is as good as novels get." Cleveland Plain Dealer

"One of Swarthout's best...An absorbing epic of endurance." Kirkus Reviews

""Glendon Swarthout is a master storyteller...The Homesman is one hell of a ride." Los Angeles Daily News

"No reader should 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

"Captures both the adventurous spirit and realities of frontier life." Booklist, the American Library Association

"Love and madness on the frontier...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 environment and ultimately and most devastatingly -- to themselves...impressive...shattering...convincing...nothing less thana study of the human spirit." Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Swarthout's tale reeks with period atmosphere...A very good story rich in characterization...Pioneer passions...Earthy stuff with which the West was won." El Paso Herald Post

"A classic of Western Americana. Filled with the sights, sounds, and daily trivia of frontier life and peopled with authentic characters...A novel that can't be put down and once finished will not easily be forgotten." Flint, Michigan Journal
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Tricia H.
4,0 su 5 stelle Great Historical Story
Recensito in Canada il 14 febbraio 2017
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This story was brilliantly told and heartbreaking to read. The Frontier must of been absolutely brutal........true survival of not only the fittest but the fittest and lucky. Swarthout does a great job painting with words to bring the hardship of this life to the reader and the plot is well paced. It made me so grateful not to be born a woman in this era.
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