This novel impressed me so much that I just know that the film will be at best a disappointment and at worst an extreme irritant. The soundtrack however should be good. I think that as I was reading the book I probably had an internal soundtrack from the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music. There is a fiddle and banjo duet described in the book that sounds like it came straight from that anthology. And in one part of the book the hero seems to have wandered into the ballad of "Omie Wise". Now that I think of it probably the best person to do the soundtrack would have been Ry Cooder - doing the kind of stuff he did for "The Long Riders".