Последние издания книг Глендона Свортаута

Soon to be 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.

By the author of The Homesman, now a major motion picture The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a gunfighter at the turn of the twentieth century who must confront the greatest Shootist of all: Death. Most men would end their days in bed or take their own lives, but a gunfighter has a third option, one that Books decides to exercise. He may choose his own executioner.
As word spreads that the famous assassin has incurable cancer, an assortment of human vultures gathers to feast on the corpse—among them a gambler, a rustler, a clergyman, an undertaker, an old love, a reporter, even an admiring teenager. What follows is the last courageous act in Books’s own legend.
This classic, Spur Award–winning novel was chosen by the Western Writers of America as one of the best western novels ever written and was the inspiration for John Wayne’s last great starring role in the acclaimed 1976 film adaptation. The Bison Books edition includes a new introduction by the author’s son, Miles Swarthout, in which he discusses his father’s work and the making of the legendary film.

В сборник вошли три романа известных писателей — бразильца Жоржи Амаду и американцев Глендона Суортхаута и Кена Кизи. Они собраны под одной обложкой, ибо проблематика литературных произведений, а так же их кинематографическая версия во многом созвучны друг другу. Не случайно режисер фильма «Генералы песчаных карьеров» Холл Бартлет — ученик и последователь знаменитого Стенли Креймера, снявшего «Благослови зверей и детей». Это романы (и фильмы!) о жестокости и бесчеловечности мира, в котором живут их герои и по мере сил пытаются протестовать против этой жестокости. Предлагаемый сборник, выпущенный в серии «Экран-книга», являет собой пример счастливого сочетания глубокой литературы и глубокого кино, талантливого писателя и талантливого режиссера.

Горькое повествование о романтическом восприятии мира американскими детьми и о жестокой реальности, в которой они существуют.

В книгу вошли два произведения современных американских писателей: "Благослови зверей и детей" Глендона Суортхаута, впервые переведенное на русский язык, и переиздание повести Карсон Маккаллерс "Участница свадьбы".