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Smiling Country by Elmer Kelton (2000, Mass Market)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co
ISBN-100812540190
ISBN-139780812540192
eBay Product ID (ePID)1648849
Product Key Features
Book TitleSmiling Country
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicWesterns
Publication Year2000
GenreFiction
AuthorElmer Kelton
Book SeriesHewey Calloway Ser.
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight4.7 Oz
Item Length6.7 in
Item Width4.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"Kelton is a genuine craftsman with an ear for dialogue and, more importantly, an understanding of the human heart." -- Booklist " The Smiling Country is a superb Kelton--a warm, nonviolent tale with captivating characters, a sweet love story, the flavor of a better time that has sadly passed." -- Rocky Mountain News "You can never go wrong if you want to read a good story with realistic characters and you pick up a title by Elmer Kelton. In the case of his newest book, The Smiling Country, the guarantee is as good as gold....Kelton's characters jump off the page, they are so real. This is another fine title from the man named the Greatest Western Writer of All Time in a 1995 survey by the Western Writers of America." -- America Cowboy, "Kelton is a genuine craftsman with an ear for dialogue and, more importantly, an understanding of the human heart." --Booklist "The Smiling Country is a superb Kelton--a warm, nonviolent tale with captivating characters, a sweet love story, the flavor of a better time that has sadly passed." --Rocky Mountain News "You can never go wrong if you want to read a good story with realistic characters and you pick up a title by Elmer Kelton. In the case of his newest book, The Smiling Country, the guarantee is as good as gold....Kelton's characters jump off the page, they are so real. This is another fine title from the man named the Greatest Western Writer of All Time in a 1995 survey by the Western Writers of America." --America Cowboy
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
Series Volume Number1
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisTwenty 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 1910 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. When he is badly injured trying to break a renegade horse, he thinks for the first time of his future and sees the loneliness that awaits him, and regrets his decision to run away from the only woman he had ever loved, the schoolteacher Spring Renfro. The Smiling Country is filled with humor, love, and the lore of the cowboy life at a time when the great, free, open ranges of the West were adjusting to a new, technological era. It is destined to stand, as so many Kelton books have, among the great Western novels of all time.
