In the evenings at home, he frequently spends time with Halmea or talks to a pair of ranch hands who share their stories of cowboying and rodeoing all over the southwestern US.

Lonnie spends most of his time working on the ranch while sometimes driving to town to shoot pool or drink beer with his friends. The tension between Hud and Homer and Lonnie's struggle to reach maturity are the key elements that drive the novel. Hud is a capable ranch hand but has a ruthless character and he indulges his often extreme appetites with no restraint, doing what he pleases regardless of the consequences. Lonnie, orphaned by the premature deaths of his parents, is the book's narrator and the exceptionally beautiful prologue explains his day-to-day life as he transitions through adolescence. 85-year-old Homer Bannon lives with his wife, his stepson Hud, his 17-year-old grandson Lonnie, and Halmea, a maternal housekeeper. Set on a cattle ranch in rural Texas in the early 1950s. The title of the novel derives from the last three lines of the poem ' Under Ben Bulben' by William Butler Yeats, which are carved on Yeats’s tombstone: The novel was adapted into the screenplay for the 1963 film Hud, starring Paul Newman as the title character. Homer's ruthless stepson, Hud, stands as the primary antagonist of the novel. Set in Texas in 1954, the Bannon ranch is owned by Lonnie's grandfather, Homer Bannon. McMurtry's debut novel, it portrays life on a cattle ranch from the perspective of young narrator Lonnie Bannon. Horseman, Pass By is a 1961 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry.

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