- Paperback: 257 pages
- Publisher: Vintage (4 May 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 009957621X
- ISBN-13: 978-0099576211
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,092,145 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Set in west Texas in 1906, this novel is by an award-winning author of westerns, and has been made into a film starring Tommy Lee Jones, Sam Shepherd and Sissy Spacek. As the world moves relentlessly into the machine age, Hewey Calloway is trying to remain a cowboy on horseback.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
This Californian loves "The Good Old Boys"
28 Sep 1999
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Elmer Kelton is in top form with "The Good Old Boys," a book I'll always remember for its remarkable characters and unusual story. Hewey Calloway struggles with the arrival of automobiles and technology... not unlike the struggle some of us have today with computers and a changed world.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Character & Depth Far Beyond A Simple "Western"
12 Oct 2005
Format:Mass Market Paperback
It's rare to see a Western novel with character development of this depth. Kelton found the formula earlier in "The Time It Never Rained" and "The Time The Cowboys Quit" and improved on it even more for this novel. I've always been fascinated about the arrival of the automobile in the early West. Everyone didn't one morning wake up and say, "Let's go buy a car". So the transition yields rich opportunities for story development. Like J. Frank Dobie, Kelton grew up on a ranch and heard many of the old-timers sharing tales of a life long since gone. In this book they're woven into a believable tapestry of hard life in an unforgiving landscape. Kelton does a wonderful job of putting Hewey Calloway in both the past and the present...and what's so believable is that this character sees both as well as the challenges of the future. He just hates to see it come. As the years go on these books will continue to rise to the top as evidence that Westerns are more than shoot-em ups. They are documentaries on a way of life that set standards, which this Country will seldom see again. Kelton says this book nearly wrote itself. Thankfully, he was there to show it the way.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
A wonderful experience - if you don't place yourself above i
29 Jun 2002
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The Good Old Boys takes the reader into the world of the early century cowboys that lived and worked on their horses. The men who were top in their field only to see their field melting away. I totally enjoyed every page, and when I saw the snobbish review of an elitist reviewer who said "Aficionados of the oat-burner genre will likely find it a notch above the general fare. More literary tastes will find it wanting. It is not nearly as elevated a book either thematically or stylistically as the afterword by Don Graham would suggest." I simply thought that poor person just doesn't understand! This work by Elmer Kelton depicts a time, a place, and a voice that many may not understand, and will not appreciate. I think that poor soul should not be reviewing "oat-burning genre" but those who live near the land will either remember or learn about another time. Seldom do you find such an original and wonderful story as "The Good Old Boys".
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