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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.
The Homesman opens in the 1850s, when early pioneers are doing anything they can to survive dreadful conditions. Women especially struggle with broken hearts and minds as they face bitter hardships: One nineteen-year-old mother loses her three children to diphtheria in three days; another woman left alone for two nights is forced to shoot wolves to protect herself.
The situation calls for a âÈêhomesmanâÈëâÈ'a person charged with taking these women, driven mad by the conditions of rural life, to asylums in the East. Not exactly a job people are lining up for, it falls to Mary Bee Cuddy, an ex-teacher and spinster, who is indomitable, resourceful, and âÈêplain as an old tin pail.âÈë Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she canâÈçt make it alone, so she takes along her only available companion: the lowlife and untrustworthy George Briggs.
Mary Bee and George know it wonâÈçt be easy, but their endurance is truly tested as they fight the tide of colonization, Indian attacks, ice storms, loneliness, and the unceasing aggravation of a disparate group of mad women. This is the tale of their journey and a tribute to the men and women who homesteaded the frontier, whether they survived or not.
Winner of both the Spur Award and the Wrangler (Best Western Novel) Award in 1988, The Homesman is fiction of the highest rank. Glendon Swarthout has created a magnificent tale and a portrait of a frontier woman who is as moving and believable as she is unforgettable.
The Homesman opens in the 1850s, when early pioneers are doing anything they can to survive dreadful conditions. Women especially struggle with broken hearts and minds as they face bitter hardships: One nineteen-year-old mother loses her three children to diphtheria in three days; another woman left alone for two nights is forced to shoot wolves to protect herself.
The situation calls for a âÈêhomesmanâÈëâÈ'a person charged with taking these women, driven mad by the conditions of rural life, to asylums in the East. Not exactly a job people are lining up for, it falls to Mary Bee Cuddy, an ex-teacher and spinster, who is indomitable, resourceful, and âÈêplain as an old tin pail.âÈë Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she canâÈçt make it alone, so she takes along her only available companion: the lowlife and untrustworthy George Briggs.
Mary Bee and George know it wonâÈçt be easy, but their endurance is truly tested as they fight the tide of colonization, Indian attacks, ice storms, loneliness, and the unceasing aggravation of a disparate group of mad women. This is the tale of their journey and a tribute to the men and women who homesteaded the frontier, whether they survived or not.
Winner of both the Spur Award and the Wrangler (Best Western Novel) Award in 1988, The Homesman is fiction of the highest rank. Glendon Swarthout has created a magnificent tale and a portrait of a frontier woman who is as moving and believable as she is unforgettable.
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- Title The Homesman
- Author Glendon Swarthout
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
- Date 2014-02-11
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- ISBN 9781476754260 / 1476754268
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 in (21.08 x 13.97 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Topical: Country/Cowboy
- Library of Congress subjects Pioneers, Western fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014378714
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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"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."
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