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Glendon Swarthout Livres

    Glendon Swarthout a créé des récits profondément ancrés dans des décors américains, explorant souvent les facettes austères et sauvages de la vie. Sa prose se distingue par des descriptions vivides de paysages et une perspicacité aiguë de la psychologie des personnages, plongeant les lecteurs dans la crue authenticité de ses histoires. Il possédait une capacité remarquable à capturer l'essence de la résilience humaine face à des adversités redoutables. Ses romans sont célébrés pour leur narration robuste et leurs personnages mémorables qui laissent une impression durable.

    Bless the Beasts and Children
    Denkt bloss nicht, dass wir heulen
    Reader´s Digest. The Silver Falcon. Alone. The Melodeon. The Gold of Troy
    The Homesman
    Une gâchette
    l'harmonium

    • The Homesman

      • 352pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      On the 1850s frontier, some brave women's hearts and minds were broken by bitter hardship. A "homesman" must escort a handful of them back East to a sanitarium, and the job falls to the indomitable and resourceful Mary Bee Cuddy. She knows she cannot succeed alone, but the only companion Mary Bee can find is low-life claim jumper George Briggs. Thus begins a trek against the tide of colonization, hardship, Indian attacks, ice storms, and loneliness.

      The Homesman
      3,9

    • Bless the Beasts and Children

      A Tender and Terrible Story of Adolescence - Like Lord of the Flies and a Separate Peace

      Enriched with detailed notes and commentary, Glendon Swarthout’s classic tale of adolescent "misfits" at a boy’s camp on a mission to save themselves. The neglected attendees of the Box Canyon Boys Camp find their lives turned around by Cotton, who, in a hot-wired pickup, challenges them to join efforts to save a herd of buffalo and rediscover themselves in the process.

      Bless the Beasts and Children