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by Louis L'Amour
About 5 pages (1,399 words)
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Perhaps because The Shadow Riders was written to turn immediately into a television movie, it skimps on L'Amour's typically strong portrayal of setting. For every evocative description like that of the town of Refugio — "a muddy, rutted alleyway between two rows of nondescript shacks, sodden with rain" — there are several cliched descriptions empty of sensual or emotional content. The narrator at one point, for example, tells his readers, "It was almighty still, and there was nobody around a body could see."

L'Amour is working with a setting other than the West — the gulf coast of Texas — but,.....

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The Shadow Riders from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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