Hombre Summary
Elmore Leonard

Hombre Summary

Like most western fiction, Hombre develops a struggle between good and evil, and its final scene involves a confrontation of the forces that embody each. Society is shown to be a potentially inflammable mix of the two forces and periodically needs to be purged, even though the purgator sometimes dies in the process, a victim not just of society, but also of his own goodness. Commonplace western themes obviously are developed in Hombre...

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