Elmer Kelton's The Blessing
- Published
- 1 January 2025
- Pages
- 268
- ISBN-13
- 9798993967509
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Blessing closes out the series' sixth entry to date, published in 2025 at 268 pages and credited to Elmer Kelton with John Bradshaw as continuation author.
Key facts about Elmer Kelton's The Blessing
Elmer Kelton wrote Elmer Kelton's The Blessing, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2025. The book has 268 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9798993967509 to find the main one.
Elmer Kelton's The Blessing is book 6 of 6 in the Hewey Calloway series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with The Good Old Boys (1978).
Additionally, Elmer Kelton writes Buckalew Family, Sons of Texas and Texas Rangers as separate series. Those series sit on our western shelf. It is also the latest published Elmer Kelton book on file.
About Elmer Kelton
Elmer Kelton (1926-2009) was a Texas-born author widely regarded as one of the finest writers the Western genre produced, distinguished for trading gunfighter mythology for the harder, more specific realities of ranching and farming life. See every Elmer Kelton book in order.
Its place in Hewey Calloway
Elmer Kelton's The Blessing is book 6 in the Hewey Calloway series. It follows Elmer Kelton's The Familiar Stranger. See the full Hewey Calloway reading order.
Hewey Calloway is a footloose, endearingly unambitious cowboy in early-1900s West Texas -- happier drifting from ranch to ranch and outfit to outfit than settling down, in gentle, comic tension with his more responsible younger brother Walter, who wants to marry and farm. Elmer Kelton wrote the first three books over nearly three decades (The Good Old Boys, 1978; The Smiling Country, 1998; Six Bits a Day, 2005), returning to the character intermittently across his career; The Good Old Boys was adapted into a 1995…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9798993967509