Travelling Companions: Antoni Jach's inspiration for new novel bookloverbookreviews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bookloverbookreviews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Atlantic
Revisionist novels are sweeping away some of the literary genre’s most calcified myths.
Anne Rearick / Agence vu / Redux
A gentleman comes from the East Coast to make his fortune. When the train lets him off in a dusty Wyoming town, he encounters an array of cowpunchers, card sharps, and ne’er-do-wells, whose coarse manners shock and intrigue him. At the saloon, he’s treated to their opinions on the local women, as well as one man’s boast that he never forgets a face so long as that face is white. A game of cards nearly turns into a shootout when one man calls the newcomer a “son-of-a ,” causing him to lay his pistol on the table and utter what will become the story’s catchphrase: “When you call me that, smile.”