Description: Now 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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Narrative Type: Fiction
Book Title: Homesman : a Novel
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2014
Topic: General, Westerns, Historical, Media Tie-In
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 7.8 Oz
Author: Glendon Swarthout
Item Length: 8.4 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
