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Midnight cowboy : novel

Joe Buck moves to New York from Texas to make his fortune servicing women. Instead, he's conned into partnering up with small-time huslter Ratso Rizzo. Living together on the tattered edges of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond that helps them transcend their cruel existence.

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  • "Midnight cowboy"@pl
  • "Midnight cowboy"@it
  • "Midnight Cowboy"

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  • "Midnight Cowboy is considered by many to be one of the best American novels published since World War II. The main story centers around Joe Buck, a naive but eager and ambitious young Texan, who decides to leave his dead-end job in search of a grand and glamorous life he believes he will find in New York City. But the city turns out to be a much more difficult place to negotiate than Joe could ever have imagined. He soon finds himself and his dreams compromised. Buck's fall from innocence and his relationship with the crippled street hustler Ratso Rizzo form the novel's emotional nucleus. This unlikely pairing of Ratso and Joe Buck is perhaps one of the most complex portraits of friendship in contemporary literature.The focus on male friendship follows a strong path cut by Twain's Huck and Jim, Melville's Ishmael and Queequeg, Fitzgerald's Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby, and Kerouac's Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarity. Midnight Cowboy takes a well-deserved place among a group of distinguished American novels that write--often with unnerving candor--about those who live on the fringe of society."
  • "Joe Buck moves to New York from Texas to make his fortune servicing women. Instead, he's conned into partnering up with small-time huslter Ratso Rizzo. Living together on the tattered edges of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond that helps them transcend their cruel existence."@en
  • "Een lichamelijk volwassen maar geestelijk kinderlijk naieve jonge man trekt naar New York in de verwachting daar veel geld te verdienen."
  • ""Dustin Hoffman gives an unforgettable performance as Ratso Rizzo, a scrounging, sleazy small-time con man with big dreams. Jon Voight is magnificent as Joe Buck, the good-looking, naively charming Texan 'cowboy' who is convinced that he is the salvation of many lonely, love starved New York women. These two characters are drawn together in this powerful and compassionate film." [box cover note]."@en
  • "A gritty but compassionate novel about an ingenuous young man's confrontation with the unpleasant realities of urban life, Midnight Cowboy is an under-appreciated classic of postwar American literature."@en
  • "Inarticulate man, after twenty-seven years of dependency upon his grandmother, decides to sell what he considers his dashing cowboy charms in New York."
  • "Inarticulate man, after twenty-seven years of dependency upon his grandmother, decides to sell what he considers his dashing cowboy charms in New York."@en
  • "Transposé fort sensiblement au cinéma en 1969 par John Achlesinger, ce roman de moeurs, que scandent dépravation et rédemption, demeure une oeuvre importante."
  • "Texas "cowboy", Joe Buck, takes a bus to New York to make his fortune hustling lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services. Shortly after arriving, he himself is hustled by con man Ratso Rizzo, with whom he ultimately develops an unusual and deep friendship as they spend a long, hard winter in the underbelly of the city."@en

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  • "Drama"@en
  • "Scripts"@en
  • "Samfundsskildringer fra nutiden"@da
  • "Motion picture plays"@en
  • "Mandeskildringer"@da
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Midnight cowboy : novel"@en
  • "Macadam cowboy : roman"
  • "Noncy kowboj"
  • "Midnight cowboy a novel"@en
  • "Midnight cowboy"
  • "Midnight cowboy"@en
  • "MIDNIGHT COWBOY"@en
  • "MIDNIGHT COWBOY"
  • "Macadam cowboy"
  • "午夜牛郎"
  • "Een cowboy voor de nacht"
  • "Polnočni kavboj"@sl
  • "Polnočni kavboj"
  • "MACADAM COWBOY"
  • "Un uomo da marciapiede"
  • "Un uomo da marciapiede"@it
  • "Perdidos na Noite"
  • "Midnats cowboy"
  • "Midnats cowboy"@da
  • "Midnight cowboy : a novel"
  • "Midnight cowboy : a novel"@en
  • "Polunochnyĭ kovboĭ"
  • "Midnight Cowboy"
  • "Midnight Cowboy"@en
  • "Perdidos na noite"
  • "Perdidos na noite"@pt
  • "Rodeo der Nacht"
  • "Midnight cowboy : A novel"
  • "Wu ye niu lang"
  • "Rodeo der Nacht : Roman"
  • "Un cow-boy de charme : roman américain"
  • "Vaquero de medianoche"@es
  • "Vaquero de medianoche"
  • "Cowboy de medianoche"@es
  • "Cowboy de medianoche"
  • "Cowboy di Mezzanotte"
  • "Nocny kowboj"@pl
  • "Nocny kowboj"
  • "Keskiyön cowboy"@fi
  • "Keskiyön cowboy"
  • "Un Cow-boy de charme"
  • "Cowboy di mezzanotte"

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