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The Brave Cowboy
Jack Burnes is a loner at odds with modern civilization. A man out of time, he rides a feisty chestnut mare across the New West -- a once beautiful land smothered beneanth airstrips and superhighways. And he lives by a personal code of ethics that sets him on a collision course with the keepers of law and order. Now he has stepped over the line by breaking one too many of society's rulus. The hounds of justice are hot in his trail. But Burnes would rather die than spend even a single night behind bars. And they have to catch him first.
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HE WAS SITTING ON HIS HEELS IN THE COLD LIGHT of the dawn, drawing pale flames through a handful of twigs and dry crushed grass. Read the first page
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Format:Paperback
I am so pleased to see that this very fine book is still in print. First written in 1956 by Edward Abbey, it has become something of a cult classic, as has the Kirk Douglas film "Lonely are the Brave" that was based on it. The book contains some memorable prose and opens thus. "There is a valley in the West where phantoms come to brood and mourn, pale phantoms dying of nostalgia and bitterness". And so it goes on. The book is a mournful elegy for the old West and a simpler way of life.
It is a contemporary Western story about John W "Jack" Burns a roaming ranch hand. In the story Burns is a cowboy who rejects modern technology and is unable to embrace modern society. He would not like todays computer age! He hates fences that restrict freedom of movement. Burns has no social security card, no driving licence and refuses to register for the draft. In short something of a rebel. When a close friend is jailed, he thinks nothing of deliberately getting himself arrested and trying to spring his friend. There is a very entertaining scene where he fights a one armed man in a bar to achieve this. In jail his friend refuses his help so Jack escapes anyway and takes to his splendid horse "Whisky". Together they head towards the mountains and Old Mexico beyond. They are pursued by the law making full use of modern technology in the form of vehicles and helicopters. Jack has an appointment with destiny and a climactic ending. Abbey describes a scene where Jack and Whisky climb up a tortuous mountain route. "Behind him rose the dark mountain. Far above, remote in time and space, the glittering stars wheeled to the beat of a cosmic drum".
I cannot be the only person that loves this book as I notice that a first edition now fetches up to 10,000 dollars across the pond, where it is clearly much better appreciated. Kirk Douglas liked it so much that after reading it he persuaded Universal to film it with him as the star. He often cited it as his personal favourite amongst his many films. It is a beautifully written story that will appeal to all those with a free spirit at heart. I believe there is a Brave Cowboy in all of us somewhere, struggling to break free.
It is a contemporary Western story about John W "Jack" Burns a roaming ranch hand. In the story Burns is a cowboy who rejects modern technology and is unable to embrace modern society. He would not like todays computer age! He hates fences that restrict freedom of movement. Burns has no social security card, no driving licence and refuses to register for the draft. In short something of a rebel. When a close friend is jailed, he thinks nothing of deliberately getting himself arrested and trying to spring his friend. There is a very entertaining scene where he fights a one armed man in a bar to achieve this. In jail his friend refuses his help so Jack escapes anyway and takes to his splendid horse "Whisky". Together they head towards the mountains and Old Mexico beyond. They are pursued by the law making full use of modern technology in the form of vehicles and helicopters. Jack has an appointment with destiny and a climactic ending. Abbey describes a scene where Jack and Whisky climb up a tortuous mountain route. "Behind him rose the dark mountain. Far above, remote in time and space, the glittering stars wheeled to the beat of a cosmic drum".
I cannot be the only person that loves this book as I notice that a first edition now fetches up to 10,000 dollars across the pond, where it is clearly much better appreciated. Kirk Douglas liked it so much that after reading it he persuaded Universal to film it with him as the star. He often cited it as his personal favourite amongst his many films. It is a beautifully written story that will appeal to all those with a free spirit at heart. I believe there is a Brave Cowboy in all of us somewhere, struggling to break free.
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"Lonely are the Brave" has long been one of my favourite films and, if memory serves me correctly, I think this was also Kirk Douglas' favourite film. The film stuck pretty close to the book and I thoroughly enjoyed reading the novel for the first time. One annoying aspect of the Kindle version is the number of transcription errors such as "111" instead of "I'll" and "hell" instead of "he'll". Apart from this minor irritation, well worth the money.
Format:Paperback
I saw the film version of this book many years ago starring Kirk Douglas in the starring role; It's one of my favourite films. The book as is usual is better than the film although the film did stick pretty much with the story. I'd recommend this book to anyone who likes descriptive prose and a great story, Edward Abbey has written a brilliant book about a disappearing world and the love of personal freedom and one man's rebellion against a society that seeks to put ordinary people in a conformist strait-jacket to suit the corporate state. Read it and see the film. I just wish the film would be released on DVD region 2 so it can sit alongside the book in my bookcase.
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