Midnight Cowboy - Paperback
$11.99
$14.99
-20%Quantity
01
Pay over time for orders over $35.00 with
Offers & Perks
Earn 11 points with this purchase
Added to your rewards balance after checkout.
100 points welcome bonus
Create an account and start with extra points.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Integrated Media LLC.ISBN-13:9780795350412ISBN-10:795350414UPC:9780795350412Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Urban & Street Lit, CrimeSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.63Product ID:SCK6Q7NJQQ
The basis for the Oscar-winning buddy film. "There is no questioning the rampant power achieved through shriveling, shattering scenes" (Kirkus Reviews). Midnight Cowboy is considered by many to be one of the best American novels published since World War II. The main story centers around Joe Buck, a naive but eager and ambitious young Texan, who decides to leave his dead-end job in search of a grand and glamorous life he believes he will find in New York City. But the city turns out to be a much more difficult place to negotiate than Joe could ever have imagined. He soon finds himself and his dreams compromised. Buck's fall from innocence and his relationship with the crippled street hustler Ratso Rizzo form the novel's emotional nucleus. This unlikely pairing of Ratso and Joe Buck is perhaps one of the most complex portraits of friendship in contemporary literature. The focus on male friendship follows a strong path cut by Twain's Huck and Jim, Melville's Ishmael and Queequeg, Fitzgerald's Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby, and Kerouac's Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty. Midnight Cowboy takes a well-deserved place among a group of distinguished American novels that write--often with unnerving candor--about those who live on the fringe of society. "Leaves the world of innocence that is muddied by sex for a world that is innocent in the midst of sex, with a protagonist who is a sexual entrepreneur." --The New York Review of Books
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Integrated Media LLC.ISBN-13:9780795350412ISBN-10:795350414UPC:9780795350412Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Urban & Street Lit, CrimeSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.63Product ID:SCK6Q7NJQQ
Herlihy, James Leo: - James Leo Herlihy was born in 1927 in Detroit, Michigan to a working-class family. After serving in World War II, Herlihy studied art, literature, and music at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. In 1960 he published All Fall Down, a largely critically acclaimed work which was later adapted for film. In 1965 he published Midnight Cowboy, which cemented his reputation as a serious writer. After the success of Midnight Cowboy, Herlihy retreated from the public eye and turned his attention to teaching creative writing at the City College of New York, the University of Arkansas, and the University of Southern California. Herlihy died in Los Angeles in 1993.
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC.
Contributor(s)
Author
Free shipping on orders over $75. Standard shipping takes 3-7 business days. Eligible items may be returned within 30 days of delivery. Conditions apply.