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    Horseman, Pass By
    Horseman, Pass By
    Horseman, Pass By
    Audiobook7 hours

    Horseman, Pass By

    Written by Larry McMurtry

    Narrated by Kerin McCue

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    About this audiobook

    In addition to his 29 books, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry is credited on dozens of screenplays-including the Academy Award-winning Brokeback Mountain. Horseman, Pass By is a post-World War II classic first published in 1961 and later made into a feature film. Cattleman Homer Bannon is a walking advertisement for traditional, old-frontier morals-in contrast to his stepson, Hud. Homer's grandson Lonnie is torn between emotions for his father and grandfather as he struggles to define his own identity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 21, 2010
    ISBN9781449861025
    Horseman, Pass By
    Author

    Larry McMurtry

    Larry McMurtry (1936–2021) was the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lived in Archer City, Texas.

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    • 4/5
      I’m a fan of McMurtry for sure. This is not one of my favorites. I guess that I enjoy his old westerns more. It’s a interesting story, please don’t misunderstand, I read the whole book and it kept my interest but not as entertaining.
    • 5/5
      American Literature of the finest sort. When the three page epilogue is a perfect short story by itself you know you've read something special.
    • 4/5
      This is a rather bleak look at Lonny Bannon's final weeks on his grandfather's ranch. Lonnie's step-uncle Hud is a chaotic force at the ranch, and his conflict with Lonnie's grandfather, Hud's step-father, is what gives plot to this otherwise slice-of-life in the lonely middle of nowhere story. Aside from the paperbacks he reads and rereads, his grandfather, the black housekeeper Halmea and one of the ranch hands, the land are the positives in Lonnie's life, but that can't be enough for a 17 year old who longs for more, though not yet for much more.
    • 3/5
      Originally called "Horseman, Pass By" this is a short, and searing novel which deals with the small horizons, mental and moral of the inhabitants of the Great Plains of America. It climaxes with a rape, and the reactions of the town and family of the local high school hero. Unpleasant because it is quite well done. I read the novel before the date of this reprint, but, I think when the film adaptation was current.
    • 4/5
      This novella, the first published work of Larry McMurtry, was the basis for the motion picture Hud, starring Paul Newman, Patricia Neal and Melvyn Douglas. While there are a few minor differences, if you’ve seen the movie, you’ll recognize the story.At its heart, this is a coming of age story. Young Lonnie lives with his elderly grandfather, a hardscrabble rancher near the Texas panhandle town of Thalia, the scene for several of McMurty’s novels. Grandpa has remarried after the death of Lonnie’s grandmother, bringing his new wife’s ne’er-do-well, rakish son, Hud, into the picture. Grandpa and Hud are engaged in a generational power struggle, while Lonnie can only look on helplessly as Hud terrorizes the household. The motion picture is magnificent and paints Hud in a better light. Given a choice between the novella and the motion picture, I’d recommend the latter.
    • 5/5
      Horseman, Pass By is the title of Larry McMurtry's debut novel [1961], set in the dry barren flatland of West Texas. It is also part of the epitaph I saw above William Butler Yeats tombstone in my ancestral homeland in Sligo, Ireland. Both are elegiac summations of lost times and vanished lives. I learned soon enough reading this world-weary novel that it is the first volume of what is now known as The Thalia Trilogy, Thalia being the small town that centers the three novels. I also realized one chapter in that my novel was also the movie with Paul Newman in the title role, Hud. (The third part of the trilogy is also the Oscar winning The Last Picture Show.) I cannot discuss the plot very well because in doing so, I would be revealing the spoilers that encompass most of the story. Let's just say it is narrated by one teenager, Lonnie, as he recounts the hardscrabble lives around him, his life on his grandfather's ranch, and the abundant toxic masculinity surrounding this small-town Texas of the 1950's. The story is beautifully written. Let me leave you with this, a dancehall during the week of the rodeo: "...and on the dance floor the dancers hugged and swirled in the blue darkness and the smoke. The only ones who weren't having a good time were a few lonesome-looking cowboys at the bar....the jukebox flared up and played hillbilly dance music the rest of the time I stayed. It played old songs by Hank Williams and Ernest Tubb and Kitty Wells, and it was cold, cold hearts in the darkness with dancers bumping into each other and going to dance some more....It was no more work and no more lonesome and all the honky-tonk angels living it up."
    • 4/5
      Horseman, Pass By : A Novel is Larry McMurtry's first novel. A fiction rich with setting of the Texas panhandle. Life on a large cattle ranch. Geography of scrub grass, mesquite, cows and horses. It offers a wonderful feeling of that West which I love. A stellar first novel. I encourage you to read it ,especially if you like that setting.
    • 5/5
      I’m not a Western fan, folks, but the last few Westerns I’ve read, including this one, have gone straight to the top of my Best Books Read list. Oh my. And I swear to you that not only do I not like Westerns, I am not a lover of horses or guns either, so how-in-the-world has this happened?What a story. What a writer. What a great book. Even if it is a Western.
    • 4/5
      I started this on the train back from Portland, and was immediately drawn in by the characters. I'll have to watch "Hud" after finishing the novel.
    • 4/5
      I've seen the movie Hud so many times that it probably colored my perception of this book too much while I was reading it, and I'm sure I would have enjoyed Horseman, Pass By more if I had never seen the movie which was adapted from it; that said, I still enjoyed it a great deal. McMurtry's a terrific writer and his concise yet often aridly poetic prose captures the feel of coming of age in a small western town in the mid-20th century perfectly.Those who come to the book after having seen the movie will probably be shocked by the book's portrayal of the Hud character. In the movie, the titular character of Hud is a charming, likable (no doubt the benefit of being portrayed by the charismatic Paul Newman), although entirely self-interested rapscallion. In Horseman, Hud is something closer to a sociopath--a charming cad, still, but colder, more vicious, and even more indifferent to the feelings of other human beings. It makes the character as portrayed in the book a lot harder to take, but like the movie, the book isn't really about Hud so much as it is about Lonnie, and his Granddad, and their relationship to each other and to the changing West.I highly recommend both the book and the movie, but I have to admit that as fine as Horseman, Pass By is, the images from Hud are what is going to stick with me.
    • 4/5
      This was the first McMurtry book that I read and I believe that it was quite good, despite my reluctance to read westerns. McMurtry's style was much more down to earth than say Lamour or Hillerman. His writing portrayed the prairie in a desolate way but also showed that it was full of life. He also did a great job of showing how frustrating and confusing it would be as a teenager, an pseudo orphan even, growing up on the outskirts of middle of nowhere town. The narration of Lonnie was very similar to what I remember as a teenager at that age. The most moving passages to me in the book had to deal with the Grandfather and his feelings about the ranch. Also, the slaughter of the infected cattle. There were very few overdone stereotypes or exaggerations of cliche scenes. I think I will be reading more of his work.
    • 3/5
      This one is not necessarily my cup of tea, but I could see how Larry McMurtry is loved by many. That said, I kept expecting it to turn into Shane. And I'm wondering how the movie based on this book is named after its least likable character.