{"product_id":"elmer-kelton-essays-and-memories-9780875654263","title":"Elmer Kelton: Essays and Memories","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Judy Alter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Texas Christian University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Texas Christian University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Texas Christian University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45114193903767,"sku":"9780875654263","price":1398.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780875654263.webp?v=1767269405","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/elmer-kelton-essays-and-memories-9780875654263","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}