- Paperback
- Publisher: Dell Pub Co; Reissue edition (Mar 1980)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 044012994X
- ISBN-13: 978-0440129943
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.4 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,155,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A modern classic
15 Sep 2009
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I'm a big proponent of judging an author by his work. Whatever ideals author Forrest Carter espoused, or whatever deceptions he perpetrated, during his life, you can't deny his powerful storytelling. A perfect example is The Outlaw Josey Wales (also published under the title Gone to Texas).
The Outlaw Josey Wales is a sneaky kind of "sleeper" novel. At first it didn't seem to be affecting me, but before I knew it, it was over, and I was eager to revisit the characters. (A sequel, The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales, is also available.)
Carter ensures that we sympathize with this feared outlaw (he seems to be notorious wherever he goes) by giving us some history. Josey Wales was a farmer and family man. But when he found his cabin and family burned black by red-leg raiders, he became one of the Missouri guerillas, the first gunfighters, considered enemies of the Union. Carter shows Wales's other aspects subtly in how he deals with other people: the young boy Jamie Burns; Lone, the Indian who becomes his "brother"; and the two women he saves from Comancheros and who ride with them.
The Outlaw Josey Wales is not action-packed, though plenty happens. It's a portrait of a man not easily understood. Ed Sala reads the audiobook version with a similar approach -- seeming to not put too much of himself in the characters, in order to allow the listeners to put more of ourselves into their places. This is one of those novels that reveal more on subsequent readings, a modern classic.
The Outlaw Josey Wales is a sneaky kind of "sleeper" novel. At first it didn't seem to be affecting me, but before I knew it, it was over, and I was eager to revisit the characters. (A sequel, The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales, is also available.)
Carter ensures that we sympathize with this feared outlaw (he seems to be notorious wherever he goes) by giving us some history. Josey Wales was a farmer and family man. But when he found his cabin and family burned black by red-leg raiders, he became one of the Missouri guerillas, the first gunfighters, considered enemies of the Union. Carter shows Wales's other aspects subtly in how he deals with other people: the young boy Jamie Burns; Lone, the Indian who becomes his "brother"; and the two women he saves from Comancheros and who ride with them.
The Outlaw Josey Wales is not action-packed, though plenty happens. It's a portrait of a man not easily understood. Ed Sala reads the audiobook version with a similar approach -- seeming to not put too much of himself in the characters, in order to allow the listeners to put more of ourselves into their places. This is one of those novels that reveal more on subsequent readings, a modern classic.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A great read, and a great movie
27 Feb 2010
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Having almost always recommended reading the novel before seeing the film, I wish I would have done so. Clint Eastwoods' classic film is outstanding, but the novel still adds elements that the film did not possess.
Forrest Carter pens a novel, much like other well regarded books such as To Kill A Mockingbird, that builds up sympathy for Josey Wales inspite of his reputation. A 'regular' guy before his outlaw years, he could be anyone of us given the same circumstances.
This is a splendid novel that stands well without a film to recommend it. You would be well rewarded by reading "Outlaw Josey Wales".
Love the Clint lookalike cover.
Tim Lasiuta
Forrest Carter pens a novel, much like other well regarded books such as To Kill A Mockingbird, that builds up sympathy for Josey Wales inspite of his reputation. A 'regular' guy before his outlaw years, he could be anyone of us given the same circumstances.
This is a splendid novel that stands well without a film to recommend it. You would be well rewarded by reading "Outlaw Josey Wales".
Love the Clint lookalike cover.
Tim Lasiuta
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Go Ahead and Read the Book, Too
26 April 2012
Format:Mass Market Paperback
A fine Western on which the Clint Eastwood movie was based. Josey Wales becomes a guerrila fighter after his farm is burned out by bluecoated border volunteers, killing his wife and child. When surrender comes, this man of the feud is unwilling to lay down his guns. He heads for Texas and Mexico beyond, although not without incident.
Josey Wales would be a gunfighter if that's what they called it but that was a term that arose among dime novelists of the 1880s. In the time of the Civil War, such a person was a pistolman, and the guerrila fighters were among the best, carrying multiple handguns into their raids and battles, the handguns most valuable to them in fighting from horseback.
If you've seen the movie, you know the story. I like to read novels like this to see how they differ from the movie. I found the story full of Western lore, some background on the Kansas/Missouri border conflict, and the role of the guerrilas in that border area.
Eastwood in a featurette on the DVD said that the book was adapted to make a movie, dropping a bunch of the political references. And when you watch it, you see there is little discussion about the background of the different warring parties. The beginning and end are somewhat beefed up for the movie with a massacre at one end and a big gunfight with Yankee cavalry volunteers at the other, but essentially the story is true to the era.
Good book. Worth reading, even if you've seen the movie.
Josey Wales would be a gunfighter if that's what they called it but that was a term that arose among dime novelists of the 1880s. In the time of the Civil War, such a person was a pistolman, and the guerrila fighters were among the best, carrying multiple handguns into their raids and battles, the handguns most valuable to them in fighting from horseback.
If you've seen the movie, you know the story. I like to read novels like this to see how they differ from the movie. I found the story full of Western lore, some background on the Kansas/Missouri border conflict, and the role of the guerrilas in that border area.
Eastwood in a featurette on the DVD said that the book was adapted to make a movie, dropping a bunch of the political references. And when you watch it, you see there is little discussion about the background of the different warring parties. The beginning and end are somewhat beefed up for the movie with a massacre at one end and a big gunfight with Yankee cavalry volunteers at the other, but essentially the story is true to the era.
Good book. Worth reading, even if you've seen the movie.
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