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The best of the West comes vividly to life in a collection of six of the finest Western stories by an acclaimed writer who specializes in his presentations of lone men fighting powerful forces.
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Though best known as a grandmaster of horror, Matheson is also a noted writer of westerns ( The Gunfight ) . This volume reprints four of his early sagebrush yarns--two short stories and two novellas--and presents two original stories. Matheson's trademarks are in evidence: the senseless but seemingly inevitable violence and brutality, the quickness and finality of death, a melancholy feeling of hopelessness, taut plotting and convincing dialogue. The best entry is the opening novella, "Gunsight," in which an aging lawman hides his growing blindness with the help of a local doctor. It's only in this work, the collection's oldest, that Matheson allows a hopeful, if ambiguous, ending, in which the hero is allowed to triumph and survive. Elsewhere, spirals of violence spin toward all-too-logical conclusions. In "Go West, Young Man" a kid from the East comes to the frontier to pursue a bloody dream, only to have his new life end before it's begun. "Boy in the Rocks" deals with a range war that needn't have occurred, while one of the new pieces, "Of Death and Thirty Minutes," laconically tells of a hostage situation with eerily modern overtones. Some of the early work reflects an author still polishing his craft, with genre cliches and hackneyed phrases marring the the prose and plotting.
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These six beautifully crafted short stories by a superb writer (Gunfight, LJ 3/15/93) feature guns of the Old West and the people who used them. Included are stories of a sheriff who is going blind yet fights to keep his town the most peaceful one in the state, a 16-year-old boy who kills to save his little herd of 50 cows, and a crazed gunman shooting up a saloon who is stopped dead by a young woman and a derringer. A book to keep and to cherish.
Sister Avila, Acad. of the Holy Angels, Minneapolis
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- PublisherM Evans & Co
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0871317478
- ISBN 13 9780871317476
- BindingHardcover
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