Western novels

>>8471415
butcher's crossing

stephany king - the gunsling

Thanks for recs.

Another couple I forgot to include in the OP:
The Sisters Brothers - Patrick DeWitt (worth an afternoon of your time, fun and well-written but nothing special)
A Moment in the Sun - John Sayles (scope is quite expansive with a lot of Western elements. It's a big fat doorstopper so probably not for those who have to budget their reading time)

>>8471415
>Gunslinger - Ed Dorn (this long experimental prose poem is as close to a Joycean Western I've come across)
Nice. I'll keep an eye out for that.

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this shit right here son

The Son by Philipp Meyer was pretty rad. Peters out toward the end but the Native American stuff was really well researched and fascinating.

He keeps getting compared to Hemingway and McCarthy, but I didn't pick that up at all, so don't go in expecting a laconic struggle, it's just kind of good.

>>8471429
>guy who wrote Stoner also wrote a Western

sold

Karl May

>>8471506
Hombre by Elmore Leonard is pretty good as well

>>8471415
Burroughs's The Place of Dead Roads
More of a quasi-western tho

What's a pulpy but good quality western?

>>8472463
I don't think you need to resort to pulpy Westerns for something thats easy/fun. True Grit as the OP mentioned is great and it's a pretty fun ride, while being incredibly well-written.

>>8471415

I see you already have true grit and blood meridian on your list. I'll add:

Butcher's Crossing - Williams
Lonesome Dove - McMurtry

butcher's crossing

Butcher's Crossing is getting a lot of love in this thread. Will definitely check that out.

So is True Grit part of a series, or is it standalone? Or is the series just a collection of standalones?

>>8473148
How is Butcher's crossing? I've read Stoner and Dipped my feet into Augustus, is it on that path, is it different?