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MIDNIGHT COWBOY
de Herlihy, James Leo
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Near Fine
- Librería
-
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Dell Books, 1970. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Later Printing. 191 pp. Dell Book 5611. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The cover feature Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight in scenes from the movie, which was directed by John Schlesinger in 1969..
Sinopsis
In some ways, it was unfortunate for author James Leo Herlihy that his novel Midnight Cowboy was adapted into the landmark film of the same name starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight. Although the film, which won several Oscars including Best Picture, certainly brought the rising author a new level of regard and notice, its almost legendary status in the history of American filmmaking has somewhat overshadowed its literary progenitor. This is especially unfortunate since Herlihy's work is considered by many to be one of the best American novels published since World War II. The novel's protagonist is Joe Buck, a naive young Texan who decides to leave his dead-end job and find a grander, more glamorous life in New York City. The city, of course, turns out to be a much harder place to conquer than Joe expected, and he soon finds his dream compromised. Buck's fall from innocence and his relationship with the crippled street hustler Ratso Rizzo form the novel's emotional nucleus, and the unlikely pair is one of the most sensitively-drawn and complex portraits of friendship in recent literature.The focus on male friendship is in fact a longstanding motif in American literature: Twain's Huck and Jim, Melville's Ishmael and Queequeg, Fitzgerald's Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby, and Kerouac's Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarity are some of the notable examples. Herlihy's Joe Buck and Ratso Rizzo continue this venerable tradition in their unique, starkly-drawn fashion. Midnight Cowboy also takes a well-deserved place among a group of distinguished American novels that write-often with unnerving candor-about people living on the "margins" of society: Nathaniel West's Miss Lonleyhearts, John Fante's Ask the Dust, Kerouac's On the Road, and William Burroughs' Junky, to name a few. Midnight Cowboy, written by Herlihy with a unique mixture of severe realism and sensitivity, may well prove to be the best and most durable of these accomplished works of fiction.
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Detalles
- Librería
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 232118
- Título
- MIDNIGHT COWBOY
- Autor
- Herlihy, James Leo
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Edición
- Later Printing
- Editorial
- Dell Books
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1970
- Palabras clave
- movie; film; motion picture; cinema; tie in; sexuality; sensuality;
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature;
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