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The Mammoth Book of Westerns

ebook / ISBN-13: 9781780339160

Price: £10.99

ON SALE: 4th July 2013

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Adventure

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The Western, though a singularly American art form, is one of the great genres of world literature with a truly global readership. It is also durable despite being often unfairly maligned.

Ever since James Fenimore Cooper transformed frontier yarns into a distinct literary form, the Western has followed two paths: one populist – what Time magazine famously billed ‘the American Morality Play’ – capable of taking many points of view, from red to redneck, but always populist, with a sentimental attachment to the misfit; the other literary – eschewing heroism, debunking with unsettling candour many of the myths of the West.

It can sometimes be difficult to draw a sure line between the two forms, but both are represented in this outstanding collection which includes stories by Rick Bass, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Larry McMurtry, Mari Sandoz, Christopher Tilghman, and Mark Twain, among many others.

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