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Horseman, Pass By: A Novel
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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove comes the novel that became the basis for the film Hud, starring Paul Newman. In classic Western style Larry McMurtry illustrates the timeless conflict between the modernity and the Old West through the eyes of Texas cattlemen.
Horseman, Pass By tells the story of Homer Bannon, an old-time cattleman who epitomizes the frontier values of honesty and decency, and Hud, his unscrupulous stepson. Caught in the middle is the narrator, Homer's young grandson Lonnie, who is as much drawn to his grandfather’s strength of character as he is to Hud's hedonism and materialism.
When first published in 1961, Horseman, Pass By caused a sensation in Texas literary circles for its stark, realistic portrayal of the struggles of a changing West in the years following World War II. Never before had a writer managed to encapsulate its environment with such unsentimental realism. Today, memorable characters, powerful themes, and illuminating detail make Horseman, Pass By vintage McMurtry.
Horseman, Pass By tells the story of Homer Bannon, an old-time cattleman who epitomizes the frontier values of honesty and decency, and Hud, his unscrupulous stepson. Caught in the middle is the narrator, Homer's young grandson Lonnie, who is as much drawn to his grandfather’s strength of character as he is to Hud's hedonism and materialism.
When first published in 1961, Horseman, Pass By caused a sensation in Texas literary circles for its stark, realistic portrayal of the struggles of a changing West in the years following World War II. Never before had a writer managed to encapsulate its environment with such unsentimental realism. Today, memorable characters, powerful themes, and illuminating detail make Horseman, Pass By vintage McMurtry.
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Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry (1936–2021) was the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lived in Archer City, Texas.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Horseman, Pass By : A Novel is Larry McMurtry's first novel. A fiction rich with setting of the Texas panhandle. Life on a large cattle ranch. Geography of scrub grass, mesquite, cows and horses. It offers a wonderful feeling of that West which I love. A stellar first novel. I encourage you to read it ,especially if you like that setting.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American Literature of the finest sort. When the three page epilogue is a perfect short story by itself you know you've read something special.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Originally called "Horseman, Pass By" this is a short, and searing novel which deals with the small horizons, mental and moral of the inhabitants of the Great Plains of America. It climaxes with a rape, and the reactions of the town and family of the local high school hero. Unpleasant because it is quite well done. I read the novel before the date of this reprint, but, I think when the film adaptation was current.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I’m not a Western fan, folks, but the last few Westerns I’ve read, including this one, have gone straight to the top of my Best Books Read list. Oh my. And I swear to you that not only do I not like Westerns, I am not a lover of horses or guns either, so how-in-the-world has this happened?What a story. What a writer. What a great book. Even if it is a Western.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I started this on the train back from Portland, and was immediately drawn in by the characters. I'll have to watch "Hud" after finishing the novel.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I've seen the movie Hud so many times that it probably colored my perception of this book too much while I was reading it, and I'm sure I would have enjoyed Horseman, Pass By more if I had never seen the movie which was adapted from it; that said, I still enjoyed it a great deal. McMurtry's a terrific writer and his concise yet often aridly poetic prose captures the feel of coming of age in a small western town in the mid-20th century perfectly.Those who come to the book after having seen the movie will probably be shocked by the book's portrayal of the Hud character. In the movie, the titular character of Hud is a charming, likable (no doubt the benefit of being portrayed by the charismatic Paul Newman), although entirely self-interested rapscallion. In Horseman, Hud is something closer to a sociopath--a charming cad, still, but colder, more vicious, and even more indifferent to the feelings of other human beings. It makes the character as portrayed in the book a lot harder to take, but like the movie, the book isn't really about Hud so much as it is about Lonnie, and his Granddad, and their relationship to each other and to the changing West.I highly recommend both the book and the movie, but I have to admit that as fine as Horseman, Pass By is, the images from Hud are what is going to stick with me.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was the first McMurtry book that I read and I believe that it was quite good, despite my reluctance to read westerns. McMurtry's style was much more down to earth than say Lamour or Hillerman. His writing portrayed the prairie in a desolate way but also showed that it was full of life. He also did a great job of showing how frustrating and confusing it would be as a teenager, an pseudo orphan even, growing up on the outskirts of middle of nowhere town. The narration of Lonnie was very similar to what I remember as a teenager at that age. The most moving passages to me in the book had to deal with the Grandfather and his feelings about the ranch. Also, the slaughter of the infected cattle. There were very few overdone stereotypes or exaggerations of cliche scenes. I think I will be reading more of his work.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This one is not necessarily my cup of tea, but I could see how Larry McMurtry is loved by many. That said, I kept expecting it to turn into Shane. And I'm wondering how the movie based on this book is named after its least likable character.