The Shootist Swarthout GlendonPaperback
The Shootist Swarthout GlendonPaperback This is an extremely well-written Western and gives the reader vivid insight into the workings of the mind of a wanderer and gunman.―Baton Rouge, Louisiana…
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The Shootist Swarthout GlendonPaperback
This is an extremely well-written Western and gives the reader vivid insight into the workings of the mind of a wanderer and gunman.―Baton Rouge, Louisiana Sunday AdvocateBy 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. 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. 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.
What follows is the last courageous act in Books's own legend.This