Hewey Calloway · Book 2
The Smiling Country
- Published
- 1 January 1998
- Pages
- 255
- ISBN-13
- 9780312864712
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Smiling Country followed twenty years later in 1998, the second entry at 255 pages, as Elmer Kelton returned intermittently across his career to the drifting, unambitious cowboy he'd introduced two decades before.
Its place in Hewey Calloway
The Smiling Country is book 2 in the Hewey Calloway series. It follows The Good Old Boys. It is followed by Six Bits a Day. 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 9780312864712