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The Hi Lo Country, 60th Anniversary Edition
University of New Mexico Press
ISBN13:
9780826362537
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At its heart, The Hi Lo Country is the story of the friendship between two men, their mutual love of a woman, and their allegiance to the harsh, dry, achingly beautiful New Mexico high-desert grassland. The story is told by Pete, a young ranch hand, whose best friend is Big Boy Matson. Together they drink, gamble, fight, work, and rodeo. They both fall hard for a married woman--the attractive, bored, and dangerous Mona. When it was first published in 1961, the novel was both a celebration and an elegy. It captured something jagged and authentic in the West, and it caught the attention of Hollywood--notably Sam Peckinpah, who spent twenty years trying to make a movie of this multilayered and plainspoken novel. It would take another twenty years for Martin Scorcese and Stephen Frears to finally do it. Now in a special 60th anniversary edition, The Hi Lo Country continues to tell a quintessential story of the people and the land found in the American West.
- | Author: Max Evans, Johnny D. Boggs
- | Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- | Publication Date: April 15, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 176 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0826362532
- | ISBN-13: 9780826362537
- Author:
- Max Evans, Johnny D. Boggs
- Publisher:
- University of New Mexico Press
- Publication Date:
- April 15, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 176 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0826362532
- ISBN-13:
- 9780826362537