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Jan 1, 2001 · What follows is the last courageous act in Books’s own legend. This classic, Spur Award–winning novel was chosen by the Western Writers of America as one of the best western novels ever written and was the inspiration for John Wayne’s last great starring role in the acclaimed 1976 film adaptation.
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Nov 21, 2013 · He installs himself in a boarding house run by a widow, Bond Rogers. Mrs Rogers’s son, 17-year-old Gillom, is wild and unruly and is hugely impressed by the notoriety of Books. Rather than die slowly in agony, Books decides to go out in a blaze of gunfire.
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...
One of life’s little quirks. As we start the merry month of November which includes the national holiday of Thanksgiving as well as my birthday (which should be a day of praise and worship) I give you the below review of The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout as submitted by Patrick Ohl.
DESCRIPTION. 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.
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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A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of this landmark Western, starring Brian Cox and Michelle Fairley. ‘The Shootist’ is John Bernard Books, the last surviving top gunfighter in a vanishing American West. He rides into El Paso in the year 1901, to be told by a doctor that he has a terminal illness.
