Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy Harcover Fiction Novel Book
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Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy Harcover Fiction Novel Book. Before that he was an orphan with no one to talk to. No one has raised him, loved him, disliked him, led or misled him, taught him anything. He understands only one thing: his body. THIS IS the stunningly vivid novel from which the spectacular film success was made. Written in a fresh and wholly mod-ern idiom-racy, wild, tough, inexpres-sibly moving-it plunges the reader into a life that at first seems altogether alien: the world of rootless wanderers and hustlers on the dark underside of America from Texas to Times Square. The protagonist is Joe Buck, a young man alone, inarticulate, simple-hearted, a kind of misplaced American folk hero, wandering in isolation through the city crowd, a transistor radio to his ear. Yester-day he was a dishwasher in a two-bit Houston eatery. Before that he was an orphan with no one to talk to. No one has raised him, loved him, disliked him, led or misled him, taught him anything. He understands only one thing: his body. Buying a dazzling cowboy outfit, he has come hopefully to New York where there are no great-looking cowboys and where rich beautiful women will surely pay to sleep with him.
