
El Paso
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Robertson Dean
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Winston Groom
Three decades after the first publication of Forrest Gump, Winston Groom returns to fiction with this sweeping American epic.
Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early 20th century, Winston Groom brings to life a much-forgotten period of history in this sprawling saga of heroism, injustice, and love. An episodic novel set in six parts, El Paso pits the legendary Pancho Villa, a much-feared outlaw and revolutionary, against a thrill-seeking railroad tycoon known as the Colonel, whose fading fortune is tied up in a colossal ranch in Chihuahua, Mexico.
But when Villa kidnaps the Colonel's grandchildren in the midst of a cattle drive and absconds into the Sierra Madre, the aging New England patriarch and his adopted son head to El Paso, hoping to find a group of cowboys brave enough to hunt the generalissimo down.
Replete with gunfights, daring escapes, and an unforgettable bullfight, El Paso, with its textured blend of history and legend, becomes an indelible portrait of the American Southwest in the waning days of the frontier.
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awesome book!
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An unexpected pleasure
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Excellent long saga of early California and Mexico! Excellent work again by Robertson Dean !
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Great read for the road
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excellent characters
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Will look forward to more books by this author.
Great read
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Another Groom Success
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Many of the supporting characters are thinly developed, and towards the end of the book they start dropping like flies. I have read a few books of this vein that include real historical people, and sometimes I can’t help but wonder if they feature so prominently because the author wants the name recognition. The last book I read about the Mexican border featured Patton and Pershing so often that they nearly hijacked the story. I am glad that did not happen here, but I was worried.
While I appreciate writers who try to give more exposure to ignore the aspects of American history and our shared history with Mexico, I felt this book tried to do a little too much at once. Some story elements that were introduced and built up at significant were concluded so hastily that I felt the author was trying to get them finished as quickly as possible. For example, the race between airplane and train is finished so quickly that it barely warrants a footnote. Johnny’s wife is the first significant hostage that is taken by Poncho Villa‘s army, but for most of the book after that she plays no significant role, despite Johnny’s rescue attempt being built up as a major plot development. When his three companions are conveniently killed by the bowl, that’s when I began to suspect that the book was losing focus.
As far as the narration goes, I appreciated the distinctiveness of every character’s voice. It made it easy to tell who was speaking.
Good premise, but scatterbrained in narration
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