Shane
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the dusty plains of Wyoming's frontier emerges a lone, mysterious gunfighter — and in Jack Schaefer's Shane, his arrival at the Starrett homestead sets in motion one of the most enduring moral confrontations in American Western literature. Narrated through the wide, wondering eyes of young Bob Starrett, the novel chronicles the quiet, steel-nerved stranger who rides into a valley simmering with conflict between hardscrabble homesteaders and the ruthless cattle baron Rufus Ryker, who will stop at nothing to drive the settlers from their land. Shane's lethal skill is matched only by his enigmatic restraint, and as he takes up the Starretts' cause, the valley hurtles toward an inevitable, violent reckoning. Schaefer crafts a lean, mythic prose that strips the Western genre to its elemental core — duty, sacrifice, the corrupting cost of violence, and the bittersweet passage from innocence to understanding. Shane stands as a towering achievement in American fiction, a novel that transcends its genre to argue that the gunfighter, for all his glory, is ultimately an anachronism — too dangerous for the civilised world he fights to protect. First published in 1949, it has never been out of print, and its haunting final cry across an empty valley continues to resonate long after the last page is turned.
Author: Jack Schaefer
Format: Paperback
Genre: Adventure fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the dusty plains of Wyoming's frontier emerges a lone, mysterious gunfighter — and in Jack Schaefer's Shane, his arrival at the Starrett homestead sets in motion one of the most enduring moral confrontations in American Western literature. Narrated through the wide, wondering eyes of young Bob Starrett, the novel chronicles the quiet, steel-nerved stranger who rides into a valley simmering with conflict between hardscrabble homesteaders and the ruthless cattle baron Rufus Ryker, who will stop at nothing to drive the settlers from their land. Shane's lethal skill is matched only by his enigmatic restraint, and as he takes up the Starretts' cause, the valley hurtles toward an inevitable, violent reckoning. Schaefer crafts a lean, mythic prose that strips the Western genre to its elemental core — duty, sacrifice, the corrupting cost of violence, and the bittersweet passage from innocence to understanding. Shane stands as a towering achievement in American fiction, a novel that transcends its genre to argue that the gunfighter, for all his glory, is ultimately an anachronism — too dangerous for the civilised world he fights to protect. First published in 1949, it has never been out of print, and its haunting final cry across an empty valley continues to resonate long after the last page is turned.