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Hondo
by Louis L'Amour
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Bantam (1985-07-01)
ISBN: 0553247573
EAN: 9780553247572
Dewey Decimal #: 813
Mass Market Paperback
Release Date: 1985-07-01
SKU: 805
Condition: Good
Comments: Binding: Softcover. Condition: Good. Some wear along cover edges. Writing inside front cover.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
He was etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apache warrior are caught in a drama of love, war, and honor.
From the Paperback edition.
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Customer Reviews
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Rocketeer's review
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-08-29
This is the No. 1 classic of all Louis Lamor's novels. It is both true to our western heritage and descriptive of man's inner goodness. I find it rewarding to repeatedly read it, and also to view the movie again and again.
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My Favorite L'Amour
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-05-12
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
In thirty five years, L'Amour wrote over one hundred books. Every one is still in print. Quite an accomplishment. I've read dozens of his books and Hondo is unquestionably my favorite.
Louis Lamoure is often described as a good storyteller, but a mediocre writer. Hondo, his first novel, proves that Lamoure could write when he paid attention to his craft. When you start late and publish over one hundred books, it's difficult to maintain the quality required to get a first novel published.
Unusual for a Western, Hondo is a love story, reminiscent of the The Virginian (Enriched Classics (Pocket)). Published in 1953, the story also provides a balanced view of the Apaches.
Lamoure loved of the West and it comes through to the reader in his stories.
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A Solid Bit of Writing
Rating (4)
Date: 2006-08-13
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I've always liked Westerns better in the movies than in fiction. What makes for good mythic archetypes on the silver screen often makes for something less than that on the printed page. Still, Louis L'Amour's Hondo worked for me. It's a tale of the tall silent loner, hard on the outside and a sensitive soul deep within, the kind of archetype first given us by James Fenimore Cooper's Hawkeye character in Last of the Mohicans. Since then writers of Westerns have reworked the character again and again. And L'Amour does it, as well, with Hondo Lane. He creates a supremely likeable loner who is equally at home with the Apache Indians as with the white settlers, and who is suddenly thrust into a situation in which he must worry about a lone settler woman and her six year old son living in Indian country as the Apaches rise up in rebellion at the broken treaty foisted on them by the white man. Vittoro, the old and implacable Apache chief, takes a shine to the woman's son when he shows unexpected pluck and extends his protection over the boy and his mother. But another Apache, Silva, balks at this, even as Hondo is heading to the homestead to rescue the mom and her son, the woman's ne'er-do-well husband hot on his heels, intent on murder and mayhem. Hondo must fight his way back to the woman and boy, despite the harsh enmity of the Apaches, and balance the demands of his army employers with the needs of the little family he has decided to adopt. It's a good, fast moving story though it hasn't much depth to it. Nor are the characters, who are mostly well drawn, very deeply portrayed. In the end its the drive of the narrative and the rich evocation of the Arizona desert that carry this one. L'Amour worked the Western myth as well in print as many contemporary filmmakers sometimes managed to do in celluloid. -- SWM
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No Show
Rating  (1)
Date: 2006-07-06
0 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
I ordered this book so long ago I can not remember the date. Is it lost on the internet or is it in the mail?
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Classic Western
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-05-14
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
A classic western complete with horses, guns, Indians, and of course a hero.
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