Hewey Calloway · Book 1
The Good Old Boys
- Published
- 1 January 1978
- Pages
- 257
- ISBN-13
- 9780099576211
- Type
- novel
About this book
Elmer Kelton introduced footloose cowboy Hewey Calloway in The Good Old Boys in 1978, a 257-page series opener whose gentle, comic tension with his more responsible younger brother Walter later carried over into a 1995 TNT television film starring Tommy Lee Jones.
Its place in Hewey Calloway
The Good Old Boys is book 1 in the Hewey Calloway series. It is followed by The Smiling Country. 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
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