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Glendon Swarthout

    Glendon Swarthout elaboró narrativas profundamente arraigadas en escenarios estadounidenses, explorando a menudo las facetas crudas y agrestes de la vida. Su prosa se caracteriza por vívidas descripciones de paisajes y una aguda perspicacia en la psicología de los personajes, sumergiendo a los lectores en la cruda autenticidad de sus historias. Poseía una notable habilidad para capturar la esencia de la resiliencia humana frente a adversidades formidables. Sus novelas son celebradas por su sólida narrativa y sus personajes memorables que dejan un impacto duradero.

    Sie kamen nach Cordura
    ... und sie sind nur Kinder
    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
    • The Homesman

      • 352 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      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