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Warlock is an American western novel by author Oakley Hall, first published in 1958.The novel is loosely based on characters and events that took place in the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.Pictorial History of the Wild West by James D. Horan and Read More..

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Description	Warlock is an American western novel by author Oakley Hall, first published in 1958.The novel is loosely based on characters and events that took place in the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.Pictorial History of the Wild West by James D. Horan and Paul Sann ISBN 0-600-03103-9, ISBN 978-0-600-03103-1Hall's most famous novel, Warlock was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1958.Hall, Oakley Warlock (Author Biography) Writer Thomas Pynchon praised it for restoring "to the myth of Tombstone its full, mortal, blooded humanity" and showing "that what is called society, with its law and order, is as frail, as precarious, as flesh and can be snuffed out and assimilated into the desert as easily as a corpse can. It is the deep sensitivity to abysses that makes Warlock one of our best American novels."Pynchon, Thomas A Review of Oakley Hall's WarlockIn 1959, it was made into a film, also called Warlock, starring Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, and Anthony Quinn.Hall's 1978 novel The Bad Lands and 1986 novel Apaches are sequels to Warlock. The three together form the Legends West trilogy.
Description	Warlock is an American western novel by author Oakley Hall, first published in 1958.The novel is loosely based on characters and events that took place in the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.Pictorial History of the Wild West by James D. Horan and Paul Sann ISBN 0-600-03103-9, ISBN 978-0-600-03103-1Hall's most famous novel, Warlock was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1958.Hall, Oakley Warlock (Author Biography) Writer Thomas Pynchon praised it for restoring "to the myth of Tombstone its full, mortal, blooded humanity" and showing "that what is called society, with its law and order, is as frail, as precarious, as flesh and can be snuffed out and assimilated into the desert as easily as a corpse can. It is the deep sensitivity to abysses that makes Warlock one of our best American novels."Pynchon, Thomas A Review of Oakley Hall's WarlockIn 1959, it was made into a film, also called Warlock, starring Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, and Anthony Quinn.Hall's 1978 novel The Bad Lands and 1986 novel Apaches are sequels to Warlock. The three together form the Legends West trilogy.

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Name	Warlock
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Authors	Oakley Hall
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Genre	Western
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Series	Legends West trilogy
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Language	English
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Country	United States
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