The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout
An aging, legendary gunfighter learns he has terminal cancer and retreats to a small town to live out his remaining days with dignity, befriending a sympathetic doctor, an innkeeper and a young admirer while confronting the legacy of violence that has defined him; as his health fails he struggles with mortality, changing times, and a final confrontation engineered by men who want to test him, choosing to meet death on his own terms and reflecting on honor, courage, and the end of the Old West.
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- Published
- 1975
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- 178 pages
- Original Language
- English
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