A beauty to behold, those masculine activities such as the cleaning of guns, the inspecting of horses, handling a lovely woman; but juxtapose these (brilliantly! While John Grady is the young master horseman and lover, Billy is the competent and often unlucky cowboy who finds himself in no-win situations while he tries to pursue an honorable path forward. As a trilogy I'd say this is somewhat repetitive and it's worth leaving some space between the individual books - but it's unlike anything else I've read: the brooding landscapes of Hardy combined with the blood-sex themes of DH Lawrence, all given a U.

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All those stories which speak to us with the greatest resonance have a way of turning upon the teller and erasing him and his motives from all memory. Nell’ avventura, colorata, arida, fredda, mangereccia, il lettore è precipitato a capofitto in ciascuno dei libri.

It is achingly beautiful in the simple language and un fussy prose used to tell the tale of exhausting physical work, grand landscape, and men of few words. They indeed happen now if you can find the right place, but they certainly do not happen with the innocent knowledge that they are an endless commodity of life.