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.

An Army Major with a shameful secret...
Five desperate men...
A hellcat of a woman...
...unwilling companions on a perilous journey

They were alone in the deserta motley crew commanded by an officer who had been branded a coward. But in the midst of the naked passions that erupted on his tense and terrible mission, and in the arms of a woman who had nothing more to lose, he found the strength to be a man.
Scene from They Came to Cordura, a Columbia Pictures Release, directed by Robert Rossen, a Goetz-Baroda Production in CinemaScope and Eastman Color

Glendon Swarthout was born in Michigan and was graduated from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. Novelist, critic and dramatist, he is now a professor in the Basic College at Michigan State in East Lansing. They Came to Cordura was published in hardbound edition by Random House.


Fiction, Historical Fiction