· Elmer Kelton introduced Texas cowboy Hewey Calloway, one of the most beloved characters in Western fiction, almost thirty years ago in The Good Old Boys. The novel was transformed into a memorable TV film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek. Hewey returns in The Smiling Country. It is and his freewheeling life is coming to an /5(81). Twenty years ago, in The Good Old Boys, Elmer Kelton introduced one of the most beloved characters in Western fiction, the Texas cowboy Hewey Calloway. Hewey returns in The Smiling Country. It is now and his freewheeling life is coming to an end--the fences, trucks, and automobiles he hates are creeping in even to remote Alpine, in the "smiling country" of West Texas/5(86). · Elmer Kelton introduced Texas cowboy Hewey Calloway, one of the most beloved characters in Western fiction, almost thirty years ago in The Good Old Boys. The novel was transformed into a memorable TV film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek. Hewey returns in The Smiling Country. It is and his freewheeling life is coming to an Brand: Tom Doherty Associates.
Elmer Kelton, author of over a dozen popular westerns, was named the Greatest Western Writer of All Time by the Western Writers of America. He has won multiple Golden Spur Awards. The Smiling Country, filled with pathos and humor, is set in the last days of the Old West. Hewey Calloway may be pushing 45, but he can still rope and outride most. The Good Old Boys And The Smiling Country|Elmer Kelton, God's Troubadour: The Story Of St. Francis Of Assisi|Sophie Jewett, Betrayal - Blood On The Prairie: Book 2: Gateway To The Past Series|Charles W. Hankins, Strangers At The Stables (Usborne Sandy Lane Stables)|Michelle Bates. Western storyteller Kelton (Cloudy in the West, , etc.) returns for his fortieth-plus novel, a sequel to 's The Good Old Boys that again features hang-loose Hewey Calloway, circa , as his lovable old Smiling Country of West Texas fades into the automobile age. We first meet Hewey chasing a longhorn bull on the loose, an animal that symbolizes the breed of overmuscled, hardscrabble.
Overview. " The Smiling Country is about a footloose puncher who finds out the hard way that cowboys don't remain young forever and that the inevitable wear and tear of a rugged life forces changes and compromises on the willing and unwilling alike."—. Elmer Kelton. Hewey Calloway did not know how old he was without stopping to figure, and that distracted his attention from matters of real importance. Elmer Kelton. Macmillan, - Fiction - pages. 4 Reviews. Twenty years ago, in The Good Old Boys, Elmer Kelton introduced one of the most beloved characters in Western fiction, the Texas. Elmer Kelton introduced Texas cowboy Hewey Calloway, one of the most beloved characters in Western fiction, almost thirty years ago in The Good Old Boys. The novel was transformed into a memorable TV film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek. Hewey returns in The Smiling Country.
0コメント