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[Jeff Guinn] ó Glorious: A Novel of the American West (A Cash McLendon Novel) ✓ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Glorious: A Novel of the American West (A Cash McLendon Novel) Garvinstomp said The OTHER type of Western .. There are two types of Westerns. The first is the kind involving gunslingers, showdowns, daring heists, shootouts on horseback, and grizzled hombres talking tough. The Man with No Name trilogy. High Noon. Magnificent Seven. Deadwood. You know the types.This is not one of those.And it's not a bad thing, but to appreciate this book, you need to understand that this is the second type of Western, the one that takes place out west and stars people that w
| Title | : | Glorious: A Novel of the American West (A Cash McLendon Novel) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.45 (927 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0425275426 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-14 |
| Language | : | English |
A sweeping novel of the Old West from the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Gunfight… Cash McLendon has always had an instinct for self-preservation, honed by an impoverished childhood with an alcoholic father on the streets of St. He eventually builds himself up to become the son-in-law and heir apparent to industrial mogul Rupert Douglass. But when tragedy strikes and his life falls apart, his instinct for survival kicks in and he flees St. Louis. There, as he tries to win her back, he discovers a new life and community. Louis before Douglass and his enforcer can track him down.With nothing to lose, McLendon decides to search out an old
The former books editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and an award-winning investigative journalist, he is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. . Jeff Guinn is the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, The Last Gunfight, and Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde<
Garvinstomp said The OTHER type of Western .. There are two types of Westerns. The first is the kind involving gunslingers, showdowns, daring heists, shootouts on horseback, and grizzled hombres talking tough. The Man with No Name trilogy. High Noon. Magnificent Seven. Deadwood. You know the types.This is not one of those.And it's not a bad thing, but to appreciate this book, you need to understand that this is the second type of Western, the one that takes place out west and stars people that would generally be supporting characters in the first type of Western.GLORIOUS is a lovingly-written story of a man trying to find himself and his future out in the star. "Wonderful Western" according to Randy Johnson. Cash McLendon comes to the small Arizona town of Glorious on the run from his father-in-law in St. Louis. He'd made the mistake of leaving his wife alone while her parents were away because of business, only to return and find that the high strung young woman had committed suicide.A survivor since he was a small boy, Cash knew his rich in-laws would sick their enforcer, Brautigan, and his steel toed boots on him. So he cleaned out the safe, two grand, and fled.Glorious was where his previous lady friend, Gabrielle, and her father had moved their dry goods store. His intention was to correct the mistake of picking t. B. McEwan said Good but no Lonesome Dove. I haven't read a western in a long while, so I thought Glorious would be a nice change of pace. It was and I am glad that I read it, although I must say that it follows a formula right out of the 1960s TV westerns, like Bonanza and The Big Valley. In fact, it would not be unfair to say that it recalls an even earlier decade, when radio serials such as The Long Ranger were popular and Zane Grey was writing about the Riders of the Purple Sage. All this is not to say that Glorious is a bad novel. Quite the opposite. It was fun to read something that recalled a completely different era, when sex and violence were less
From Booklist Cash McLendon, a street kid in St. The sour relationship of the ex-lovers, leavened with a hint of rekindled romance, is delightful, and Cash himself, the guilt-ridden tenderfoot who can’t ride a horse, is wonderfully appealing. Douglass educates Cash and turns him into a gentleman but at a cost: Douglass’ method is to buy his competitors out, killing them if they don’t comply. Proving you can’t run from your past forever, another unreconstructed capitalist hovers ne
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