The Good Old Boys

Name: The Good Old Boys
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Elmer Kelton
ISBN: 9781436109444

Author: Elmer Kelton

Series: Hewey Calloway #2

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 9 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/25/2008

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

Honored by seven Spur Awards and peer-selected as history's best Western writer, Elmer Kelton is the beloved author of a bevy of Texas tales, including his own revealing memoir Sandhills Boy. Set in 1906, The Good Old Boys is hailed as one of Kelton's finest works. Cowboy Hewey Calloway loves to ride the open range like a solitary sailor on an endless sea. So when barbed wire and newfangled contraptions threaten his world, he's dead-set against progress-until he meets a pretty little teacher.

About Elmer Kelton

Elmer Kelton (1926-2009) was the award-winning author of more than forty novels, including The Time It Never Rained, Other Menâ€™s Horses, Texas Standoff and Hard Trail to Follow. He grew up on a ranch near Crane, Texas, and earned a journalism degree from the University of Texas. His first novel, Hot Iron, was published in 1956. Among his awards were seven Spurs from Western Writers of America and four Western Heritage awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. His novel The Good Old Boys was made into a television film starring Tommy Lee Jones. In addition to his novels, Kelton worked as an agricultural journalist for 42 years. He served in the infantry in World War II. He died in 2009.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hank on May 21, 2020

The cover blurb for Paul Hemphill’s The Good Old Boys says it’s “an eloquent celebration of a vanishing South that evokes the very colorful and special world of country music, stock-car racing, moonshine, hard living, and high-power preaching.” But the essays are not like some real-life episode of T......more