“The
Lord made every person different. He could not understand why people were
determined to make everyone the same.”
Elmer Kelton is on fire with this 1978
novel that introduces us to aging cowboy Hewey Calloway. We follow this amiable
charmer as he confronts the changing world of what Texas and range life used to
be with what it is becoming in 1906.
This novel is far from a shoot-em-up
but is long on charm, amiable companionship, and rife with on-point observations
from the gregarious and imminently likable Hewey Calloway.
The world may have left him and his
kind behind, the world is worse for that loss.
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