Horseman, Pass By by McMurtry, Larry - 2000

London: Orion. Very Good-. 2000. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Light reading and cover creases, light edge wear with small splits to base of spine, sticker ghost with minor surface tear to front cover, some foxing to edges of reading block. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork by Alan Baker. ; 192 pages; Author's first novel and the book on which the classic movie Hud was based. Set in Texas just after World War Two and depicting the conflict between the Old West and the new. Homer Bannon is an old-time cattleman who epitomizes the frontier values of honesty and decency, whilst his unscrupulous stepson, Hud, is self-centred and ruthless. The story told from the perspective of young Lonnie Bannon who looks up to them both as role models, but which of them will he choose? .