ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1959
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Glendon Swarthout - They Came to Cordura
Signet, 1959
175 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

`Major Thomas Thorn was supposed to be a coward. The five men under him were supposed to be heroes. The woman they were guarding was supposed to be a slut. The outlaw army closing in on them as they tried to make it through the desert to safety had everything on its side. But in the burning heat of the desert, and in the searing crucible of combat, odds can change -- and so can people...` -- Back cover.

In 1958, Glendon Swarthout (1918-1992) published his first novel, The Came to Cordura, made into a feature film starring Gary Cooper and Rita Hayworth the following year. In all, six of Swarthout`s books would become films, the others being 7th Cavalry, Where the Boys Are, Bless the Beasts and the Children, The Shootist and A Christmas to Remember. Nominated twice for Pulitzers and once for an O. Henry, he earned two Silver Spur Awards for Best Western Novel (The Shootist and The Homesman), a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Western Writers of America (1991), and posthumous induction into the Western Writers Hall of Fame.


Fiction, Historical Fiction