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Midnight cowboy by james leo herlihy 1965 book club edition hardcover dustjacket. Joe buck, naively charming texan cowboy, seeks his fortune in the. Midnight cowboy takes a welldeserved place among a group of distinguished american novels that writeoften with unnerving candorabout those who live on the fringe of society. Both funny and depressing, our midnight cowboy rides headon into the vortex of cyclonic cultural change, and thus confirms to 1969 viewers that they, themselves, have been swept away from the 1950s age of innocence, and dropped, dorothy and toto like, into the 1960s age of aquarius.
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