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Horseman, Pass By
Horseman, Pass By is a 1961 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. McMurtry's debut novel, it portrays life on a cattle ranch from the perspective of young narrator Lonnie Bannon. Set in Texas in 1954, the Bannon ranch is owned by Lonnie's grandfather, Homer Bannon. Homer's ruthless stepson, Hud, stands as the primary antagonist of the novel. The novel was adapted into the 1963 film Hud, starring Paul Newman as the title character.
McMurtry began developing the novel while enrolled at the University of North Texas. He published early excerpts of the book in a magazine that he developed with friends, called The Coexistence Review. After graduating in 1958, he recounted in his memoir Books that he rose early each morning to complete five pages of the novel. He also reported feeling ambivalent about the book's publication by Harper & Brothers in 1961, writing: "The publication so long awaited for, was anti-climatic".
The title of the novel derives from the last three lines of the poem "Under Ben Bulben" by William Butler Yeats, which are carved on Yeats’ tombstone:
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by.
Set on a cattle ranch in rural Texas in the early 1950s, the 85-year-old Homer Bannon lives with his wife, his stepson Hud, his 17-year-old grandson Lonnie, and Halmea, a maternal African-American housekeeper. Lonnie, orphaned by the premature deaths of his parents, is the book's narrator and the prologue explains his day-to-day life as he transitions through adolescence. Hud is a capable ranch hand but has a ruthless character, and he indulges his often extreme appetites with no restraint, doing what he pleases regardless of the consequences. The tension between Hud and Homer and Lonnie's struggle to reach maturity are the key elements that drive the novel.
Lonnie spends most of his time working on the ranch while sometimes driving to town to shoot pool or drink beer with his friends. In the evenings at home, he frequently spends time with Halmea or talks to a pair of ranch hands who share their stories of cowboying and rodeoing all over the southwestern US. From them, Lonnie begins to consider a world beyond the remote Bannon ranch.
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Horseman, Pass By
Horseman, Pass By is a 1961 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. McMurtry's debut novel, it portrays life on a cattle ranch from the perspective of young narrator Lonnie Bannon. Set in Texas in 1954, the Bannon ranch is owned by Lonnie's grandfather, Homer Bannon. Homer's ruthless stepson, Hud, stands as the primary antagonist of the novel. The novel was adapted into the 1963 film Hud, starring Paul Newman as the title character.
McMurtry began developing the novel while enrolled at the University of North Texas. He published early excerpts of the book in a magazine that he developed with friends, called The Coexistence Review. After graduating in 1958, he recounted in his memoir Books that he rose early each morning to complete five pages of the novel. He also reported feeling ambivalent about the book's publication by Harper & Brothers in 1961, writing: "The publication so long awaited for, was anti-climatic".
The title of the novel derives from the last three lines of the poem "Under Ben Bulben" by William Butler Yeats, which are carved on Yeats’ tombstone:
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by.
Set on a cattle ranch in rural Texas in the early 1950s, the 85-year-old Homer Bannon lives with his wife, his stepson Hud, his 17-year-old grandson Lonnie, and Halmea, a maternal African-American housekeeper. Lonnie, orphaned by the premature deaths of his parents, is the book's narrator and the prologue explains his day-to-day life as he transitions through adolescence. Hud is a capable ranch hand but has a ruthless character, and he indulges his often extreme appetites with no restraint, doing what he pleases regardless of the consequences. The tension between Hud and Homer and Lonnie's struggle to reach maturity are the key elements that drive the novel.
Lonnie spends most of his time working on the ranch while sometimes driving to town to shoot pool or drink beer with his friends. In the evenings at home, he frequently spends time with Halmea or talks to a pair of ranch hands who share their stories of cowboying and rodeoing all over the southwestern US. From them, Lonnie begins to consider a world beyond the remote Bannon ranch.