Eastlake is known primarily for his novels of the American Southwest. Criticism of his work has primarily centered on the trilogy with which he began his career as a novelist:
Go in Beauty(1956),
The Bronc People(1958), and
Portrait of the Artist with Twenty-Six Horses(1963). The novels were reprinted together as
Three by Eastlakeby Simon and Schuster in 1975 and then reprinted separately by the University of New Mexico Press in 1980. On the basis of these and several later novels, Eastlake’s work has been placed critically between that of Frank Waters and Edward Abbey.
Nonetheless, in the mid- to late-1960s, Eastlake wrote two war novels – Castle Keep (1965) and The Bamboo Bed (1969). Although they do not constitute a major stylistic and thematic divergence from the trilogy,
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Citation: Kich, Martin. "Castle Keep". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 January 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16687, accessed 24 November 2024.]
