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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780399155048
ISBN number: 039915504X
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: June 03, 2008
Publishing house: Putnam Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 3616
Studio: Putnam Adult
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The New York Times–bestselling author’s richly imagined work of historical fiction: a powerful tale of the Old West from the acknowledged master of crime fiction.
I had an eight-gauge shotgun that I’d taken with me when I left Wells Fargo. It didn’t take too long for things to develop. I sat in the tall lookout chair in the back of the saloon with the shotgun in my lap for two peaceful nights. On my third night it was different. I could almost smell trouble beginning to cook . . . .”
After the bloody confrontation in Appaloosa, Everett Hitch heads into the afternoon sun and ends up in Resolution, an Old West town so new the dust has yet to settle. It’s the kind of town that doesn’t have much in the way of commerce, except for a handful of saloons and some houses of ill repute. Hitch takes a job as lookout at Amos Wolfson’s Blackfoot Saloon and quickly establishes his position as protector of the ladies who work the backrooms—as well as a man unafraid to stand up to the enforcer sent down from the O’Malley copper mine.
Though Hitch makes short work of hired gun Koy Wickman, tensions continue to mount, so that even the self-assured Hitch is relieved by the arrival in town of his friend Virgil Cole. When greedy mine owner Eamon O’Malley threatens the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up Resolution’s few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the middle of a makeshift war between O’Malley’s men and the ranchers. In a place where law and order don’t exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own, guided by their sense of duty, honor, and friendship.
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Disappointing, dry, terse, sardonic, laconic. Boring. Is this what male bonding is about? Maybe Appaloosa was better, but I'll stick with the Spenser and other tales he tells.
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I enjoyed reading this book and savored a few turns of phrase, but was surprised by the lack of originality in an author I have rarely read but often heard praised.
As I was reading, I kept casting the movie. The novel reads like a screenplay; short chapter, then fade to the subsequent scene (oops, chapter). I periodically felt like I was developing cliche overload. Laconic gunslingers, mercenary and heartless bar owner, mercenary and heartless mine owner, staunch and colorful sawmill owner, hardworking but clueless "sod busters", needy but admirable hooker, spunky farmer's wife.... Haven't I seen this somewhere before, probably starring Gary Cooper, Glenn Ford, or Jimmy Stewart? With Ron Steiger or Ernest Borgnine in a supporting role? I liked what I read and enjoyed the characters in the novel, just felt that there was nothing new or particularly interesting being imparted.
I don't usually read books of the western genre, but recently read Shavetail by Thomas Cobb and found it to be considerably more compelling than Mr. Parkers highly derivative novel.
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I have only read about 1/3 of this book and it is sort of dull.
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Resolution is a Western? Sure there were guns & the setting was in a dusty saloon town, but this could have been Spenser & Hawk instead of Virgil & Hitch. I kept reading thinking that Parker was writing this "novel" with Hollywood in mind. Parker's dialogue is just as sharp as ever, and Resolution was a fun read. It took less than 3 hours to get through it. I don't see myself re-reading this book - fun while it lasted, but I'm moving on...
Unless you are a tried & true Robert B. Parker fan with his entire collection on your bookself, I'd check the book out of the library rather than buy it.
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Parker has done a previous Western (Appaloosa) but this one is more clearly a morality play, a kind of Western version of Pilgrim's Progress. You can read it as a straight, tough, Western; or see it as a discusion of honor and law. It's very well done in either case; with one exception--the technical details of Virgil's gunfighting prowess are impossible, as any gun nut would know. Very atypical of RBP's usual care. Hence my four stars only.
Of course, now that you come to think about it, Parker's iconic heroes, whether a private eye in contemporary Cambridge, Mass., or a police chief in a coastal resort, are also gunfighters with hearts of gold. That's why we like them so much.
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