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Bless the Beasts & Children by Glendon Swarthout
From the bestselling author of The Shootist, this classic coming of age tale has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide since its initial publication in 1970. "A moving, tragic, and sociologically potent work of literature. Many similarities to Golding's Lord of the Flies and Knowles's A Separate Peace come to mind" (Library Journal)."Send us a boy--we'll send you a cowboy": It doesn't matter if the kid hates the sight of horses. Or if he still sucks his thumb and wets the bed. He's got to be taught to toe the line. To measure up. To dig in his spurs--because that's the way things are at the Box Canyon Boys Camp in Arizona.
Based on the adventures of the author's own son, Bless the Beasts & Children tells a tragicomic tale of a group of disturbed teenaged boys from over-privileged families who are sent by their inattentive parents to camp in hopes that their lazy, urban kids will be toughened up in the cowboy program. Complications arise, but these problem boys band together to take up an important cause.
In this remarkable novel, Glendon Swarthout presents an electrifying portrait of six adolescent "misfits" on a desperate mission to save themselves. And, in a society dedicated to one narrow view of success, they learn something important about what it means to be a man. This is "an exciting mission-pursuit story with an engrossing cast of characters" (Publishers Weekly).
Miles Hood Swarthout was born in Arnn Arbor, Michigan, the only child of writer/teachers. His mother, Kathryn, taught grade school in East Lansing, while his novelist father, Glendon, taught creative writing at Michigan State University while writing two bestsellers that became big films -- They Came To Cordura (Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth/Columbia) and the first of the beach pictures, MGM's hit Where The Boys Are. The family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, for Miles' high school, where he captained the tennis team and his parents collaborated on six young adult novels including Whichaway, which has seen three editions and been optioned three times for television. Miles majored in English at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, while his dad authored the biggest-selling novel ever set in Arizona, Bless the Beasts & Children, which Stanley Kramer filmed around Prescott. After stints modeling clothes, appearing in TV commercials and as a DJ on Phoenix rock radio, Miles spent a year as a VISTA Volunteer on the Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico. He then got a Masters degree in Telecommunications from the University of Southern California and has since taught screenwriting and film history at his alma mater, CMC, and Arizona State University.
As a screenwriter, Miles adapted his father's Spur-winning novel, The Shootist, which garnered him a Writer's Guild nomination in 1976 for Best Adaptation and went into cinema history as John Wayne's final film. After a CBS TV-Movie, A Christmas To Remember, and other script sales, both adaptations of his dad's 16 novels and originals, Miles became a filmmaker himself in 1997 with Mulligans!, a 35mm. short comedy which has become a hit, playing 42 film festivals, winning 8 prizes internationally and airing 50 times on the Women's Entertainment cable network. Besides writing numerous articles for magazines and film reviews for The Roundup, the magazine of the Western Writers of America, Miles edited a collection of his late father's short stories, Easterns and Westerns, for Michigan State University Press in 2001. One of his dad's stories Miles expanded into his first Western novel, The Sergeant's Lady, for Forge Books in 2003, which he also thinks would make a dandy movie. Swarthout lives in Playa del Rey near the Los Angeles airport, where he enjoys body surfing, tennis, chasing starlets and riding the occasional horse.
As a screenwriter, Miles adapted his father's Spur-winning novel, The Shootist, which garnered him a Writer's Guild nomination in 1976 for Best Adaptation and went into cinema history as John Wayne's final film. After a CBS TV-Movie, A Christmas To Remember, and other script sales, both adaptations of his dad's 16 novels and originals, Miles became a filmmaker himself in 1997 with Mulligans!, a 35mm. short comedy which has become a hit, playing 42 film festivals, winning 8 prizes internationally and airing 50 times on the Women's Entertainment cable network. Besides writing numerous articles for magazines and film reviews for The Roundup, the magazine of the Western Writers of America, Miles edited a collection of his late father's short stories, Easterns and Westerns, for Michigan State University Press in 2001. One of his dad's stories Miles expanded into his first Western novel, The Sergeant's Lady, for Forge Books in 2003, which he also thinks would make a dandy movie. Swarthout lives in Playa del Rey near the Los Angeles airport, where he enjoys body surfing, tennis, chasing starlets and riding the occasional horse.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781476766799 |
| ISBN 10 | 1476766797 |
| Titel | Bless the Beasts & Children |
| Autor | Glendon Swarthout |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Simon & Schuster |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2014-06-17 |
| Seitenanzahl | 192 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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