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Lädt ... The Cadillac Cowboysvon Glendon Swarthout
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Glendon Swarthout’s Cadillac Cowboys is one of the latter.
Basically, it’s a fish-out-of-water tale about a Connecticut college professor who, having overdosed on writings about the American west, uproots his wife and two daughters and moves the family to Arizona in the mid-1960s. But Swarthout’s writing style is so self-consciously cutesy, his main character so condescending, and his portrayal of his new neighbors so mean-spirited, that there’s not much here to enjoy.
As a brief sample: the Cadell family buys "a pseudo-adobe-mock-tile-roofed-baroque-hacienda -- sort of" on Sarcophagus Mountain “at about coph height”. Most of his neighbors in the then-booming Scottsdale area are wealthy transplanted Easterners like himself, who have brought their pre-conceptions, biases, and lifestyle with them, and most of the native Arizonans, regardless of race, are portrayed as ignorant, brutal, drunken, larcenous, or a combination of all four.
Several reviews (including, probably, one that led me to think I wanted to read this) refer to it with phrases like “scathingly funny satire”. Sorry, none of the above.
Don’t waste your time with this. ( )