{"product_id":"9781598536614","title":"The Western: Four Classic Novels of the 1940s \u0026 50s (LOA #331) : The Ox-Bow Incident \/ Shane \/ the Searchers \/ Warlock (The Library of America)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Ox-Bow Incident, Walter van Tilburg Clark explores the thin line between civilization and barbarism through the story of a lynch mob that targets three innocent men, exposing a dark authoritarian impulse at work the American frontier. Set in Wyoming in 1889, a time when ranchers and cattle companies waged war with each other, Jack Schaefer's iconic Shane deploys many of the genre's most essential elements, brilliantly filtered through a boy's perceptions. Alan Le May's The Searchers, the basis for John Ford's cinematic masterpiece starring John Wayne, follows the dogged quest of two men to rescue a young girl taken prisoner by Comanche warriors. And Oakley Hall's Warlock, a novel that anticipates the later books of Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry, casts the battle for control of a southwestern outpost as a bloody saga pitting a marauding gang of cowboys and rustlers against the town's defenders, led by the legendary gunslinger Clay Blaisedell. All four novels were memorably adapted for the screen, and their gripping stories--told with brisk narrative energy, psychological depth, and laconic humor--have contributed unforgettably to the Western's enduring legacy in American culture\" --Amazon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408368083171,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9781598536614-1.jpg?v=1788397324","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9781598536614","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}