{"product_id":"elmer-kelton-essays-and-memories-9780875654263","title":"Elmer Kelton: Essays and Memories","description":"When Elmer Kelton died in the fall of 2009, the literary world lost a consummate writer, a man the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ecalled a \"novelist who brought the sensibility of the old-style western to bear on a modern Texas landscape of oil fields and financially troubled ranches.\" Kelton was also a modest, kind man, always willing to advise a struggling writer or write a blurb for a first time published author, or assign publishing rights to his six masterpieces to a small university press.\u003cbr\u003eTCU Press owes a great debt of gratitude to Kelton, and this volume, \u003ci\u003eElmer Kelton: Memories and Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, attempts to explore just what it is that made Kelton its leading author.\u003cbr\u003eEditors Judy Alter and James Ward Lee gathered together a group of Kelton aficionados who had either published or taught or sold his books, or were simply friends. In several meetings, they divided up the main themes of Kelton's writing: Alter provides the overview of Kelton's career; Felton Cochran, longtime owner of Cactus Books in San Angelo, describes how the friendship between bookstore owner and author grew over the years; Ricky Burk, pastor of the church from which Kelton was buried, talks about the man's influence in his community; Kelton's son, Steve, explains how Kelton's career as journalist permeated his novels; Ruth McAdams, who has taught Kelton for years, explores how he deals with the themes of endurance and change; Joyce Roach delicately covers how race and ethnicity figure in Kelton's plots and the development of his unforgettable characters; Lee gives readers his inimitable take on the Hewey Calloway Trilogy--\u003ci\u003eThe Good Old Boys\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Smiling Country, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSix Bits a Day\u003c\/i\u003e; and Bob J. Frye takes a wry look at Kelton's use of humor throughout his career. The book also contains Kelton's own view of the history of the Western novel, a response to revisionist criticism. And finally Cochran provides us a list of most, not all, of Elmer Kelton's extraordinary body of work.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas Christian University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780875654263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d","brand":"Judy Alter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43067651457205,"sku":"9780875654263","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f9859c44-432a-4bd3-b4b2-97d464eec881.jpg?v=1690862231","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/elmer-kelton-essays-and-memories-9780875654263","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}