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Jan 1, 2001 · The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a man of principle and the only surviving gunfighter in a vanishing American West. He rides into El Paso in the year 1901, on the day of Queen Victoria's demise, there to be told by a doctor friend that he must soon confront the greatest Shootist of all: Death himself.
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Western fans might recognize the title as the title of John Wayne’s final movie, and for good reason: that movie was adapted from the book by the author’s own son, Miles Hood Swarthout. The film co-starred such legendary actors as Lauren Bacall and Jimmy Stewart, and it included other high-profile names: Ron Howard, Scatman Crothers ...
Nov 21, 2013 · The novel is much tougher than the film and rather coarser. The language is earthier and you get the impression that the movie toned things down to get the right theatrical rating. The central character, gun-man JB Books, is more violent than John Wayne’s portrayal, and more dangerous.
It’s 1901 in Carson City, Missouri, formerly a frontier village but now a bustling town. J.B. Books, a notorious but aging gunfighter, is very ill and rides into Carson City to see a doctor. When it’s confirmed that Books has cancer and only a short time to live, he rents a room in a boarding house run by an upright community woman.
Oct 1, 2011 · Glendon Swarthout. U of Nebraska Press, Oct 1, 2011 - Fiction - 215 pages. By the author of The Homesman, now a major motion picture The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a gunfighter at the turn...
The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a man of principle and the only surviving gunfighter in a vanishing American West. He rides into El Paso in the year 1901, on the day of Queen Victoria's demise, there to be told by a doctor that he must soon confront the greatest Shootist of all: Death himself.
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THE SHOOTIST—GLENDON SWARTHOUT—1975. SIX . He thought: Let them gawp. Let them conclude you do not give a good God damn. It was the right place. The Constantinople had more class than any saloon he had ever seen, and would deserve its fame.
