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The Smiling Country (Hewey Calloway)
The Smiling Country - Hewey Calloway
Author: Elmer Kelton
?The Smiling Country is about a footloose puncher who finds out the hard way that cowboys don't remain young forever and that the inevitable wear and tear of a rugged life forces changes and compromises on the willing and unwilling alike.?? Elmer Kelton — Hewey Calloway did not know how old he was without stopping to figure, and that di...  more »

Elmer Kelton introduced Texas cowboy Hewey Calloway, one of the most beloved characters in Western fiction, almost thirty years ago in The Good Old Boys. The novel was transformed into a memorable 1995 TV film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek.

Hewey returns in The Smiling Country.  It is 1910 and his freewheeling life is coming to an end?the fences, trucks, and automobiles he hates are creeping in even to remote Alpine, in the ?smiling country? of West Texas. When he is badly injured trying to break a renegade horse, Hewey sees the loneliness that awaits him, and regrets his decision to run away from the only woman he has ever loved, the schoolteacher Spring Renfro. 
ISBN-13: 9780765360595
ISBN-10: 0765360594
Publication Date: 4/1/2008
Pages: 256
Edition: First Edition
Rating:
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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4.1 stars, based on 6 ratings
Publisher: Forge Books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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This sequel to "The Good Old Boys" continues the saga of Hewey Calloway, a cowboy born fifty years too late, as he struggles to adapt to the changing face of Texas. Of the twenty or so Elmer Kelton books I have read, the two Hewey Calloway books stand near the top of the list.

If possible, try to read "The Good Old Boys" first. This bok is first-class as a stand-alone read, but reading the prequel first will increase your enjoyment.
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