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Llano River

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Elmer Kelton is one of the great storytellers in the western genre. If you like Louis Lamour or Giles Tippette, you will find Elmer Kelton's books just as enjoyable. His characters are complete, complex, likeable people who are dealing with what life throws at them. Llano River is not the typical story of a gunfighter. It is instead, the story of a man with "no backup in him", who takes a difficult job, and then finds himself faced with reconciling his job with his feelings. Kelton is just a good storyteller, and his characters and the Texas landscape come to life for us. I would recommend any Kelton book to lovers of western fiction.

For those who don't need the ponderous descriptions of the countryside of Louis L'Amour but do enjoy a well written western. This is Kelton at his best.

Great story set in a uniquely beautiful part of Texas; good plot, enough action; good read

another Great Elemer Kelton story, each one different, not like some authors that expand on the last one. This book has new people in a new town with a new story line.

I usualy read contemporary mysteries. Elmer Kelton was mentioned as a writer of note in an on line arcticle I read.
I picked up this book and I was highly impressed with his style, his depiction of that time, and his wonderful characters, all human ordinary souls dealing with life as it comes to them. Now I am hooked and find myself reading Kelton nightly.

Llano River is much more that a Western. It is a story about the human condition, richly displayed, with character, and a simple yet heart warming morality throughout, timeless literature.

I highly recommend Llano River. Kelton at his best.