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Appaloosa
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780399152771
ISBN: 0399152776
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: June 07, 2005
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Studio: Putnam Adult
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Editorial Review:
A richly imagined novel of the Old West, as spare and vivid as a high plains sunset, from one of the world's most talented performers. It was a long time ago, now, and there were many gunfights to follow, but I remember as well as I remember anything the first time I saw Virgil Cole shoot. Time slowed down for him. Always steady, and never fast . . . When it comes to writing, Robert B. Parker knows no boundaries. From the iconic Spenser detective series and the novels featuring Sunny Randall and Jesse Stone, to the groundbreaking historical novel Double Play, Parker's imagination has taken readers from Boston to Brooklyn and back again. In Appaloosa, fans are taken on another trip, to the untamed territories of the West during the 1800s. When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has so little regard for the law that he has taken supplies, horses, and women for his own and left the city marshal and one of his deputies for dead. Cole and Hitch, itinerant lawmen, are used to cleaning up after opportunistic thieves, but in Bragg they find an unusually wily adversary-one who raises the stakes by playing not with the rules, but with emotions. This is Robert B. Parker at his storytelling best.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Not to quibble, but...
Like many Western novels, this is set in an unspecified somewhere in the west, at an unspecified sometime. It's not easy to figure out the year; there is no mention of the Civil war, so I assume Virgil and Everett were not in it. They seem to be in their 40s, so we might date this in perhaps 1885-1890, but there are still hostile Kiowas around. This is a little sloppy.
Rating:  - If you loved Lonesome Dove, you will love APPALOOSA
APPALOOSA's Marshall Virgil Cole & his deputy Everett Hitch are as great together as Gus McCrae & Woodrow Call Texas Rangers partners in LONESOME DOVE. I loved this book & have recommended it to everyone! Also helps that Robert B Parker is my FAV! I love his Spencer, Jesse Stone & Sunny Randall books too!
Rating: - The Stuff of Old Westerns and Maybe Some New Ones
Clean and tight, this fast-paced yet rather spare tale of two "lawmen", Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, come to the rowdy mining town of Appaloosa to clean out a gang of thugs who have been terrorizing the good citizens, carries the reader all the way.
But its motifs are all fairly ordinary by now: the tough guy gunslinging lawman, the overbearing, arrogant rancher/oppressor, the timid townfolk ready to turn their loyalties on a dime, the slightly dangerous and troublesome gal who tempts ... Read More
Rating:  - Where was Bragg?
Would someone please tell me why this book was even published? Oh - that's right - the author is a bestseller. If a new writer submitted this book the publisher/editors (assuming there are any actual editors) would have asked, "Where is the bad guy? He appears throughout the book, but there is no character development whatsoever. Please read "Lonesome Dove" (see: Blue Duck); also "The Stand" (see: The Walkin' Dude); also "The Possessed (Stavrogin) to learn how to create a truly believable, evil villain. ... Read More
Rating:  - A fast read, decent western
Short, fast chapters make this novel feel more like a tv show to me than anything else, but does led to a quick read. I finished it in one afternoon. These quick chapters I feel also led to little character development through the story, somewhat of a let down for me. Also, I never got to the point where I liked Cole enough to care what happened to him.
The story was good and kept the focus clear and apparent, never straying too far. I did feel the ending was a bit anti-climatic and rushed, but finally ... Read More
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