Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, 1) - Softcover

McMurtry, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671001167 ISBN 13: 9780671001162

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1996

Synopsis

"Dead Man's Walk" is the first, extraordinary book in the epic "Lonesome Dove" tetralogy, in which Larry McMurtry breathed new life into the vanished American West and created two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call.

As young Texas Rangers, Gus and Call have much to learn about survival in a land fraught with perils: not only the blazing heat and raging tornadoes, roiling rivers and merciless Indians but also the deadly whims of soldiers. On their first expeditions--led by incompetent officers and accompanied by the robust, dauntless whore known as the Great Western--they will face death at the hands of the cunning Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump and the silent Apache Gomez. They will be astonished by the Mexican army. And Gus will meet the love of his life.

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Review:

""Dead Man's Walk "is a very good read . . . [It] will keep you reading [and] make you miss meals." --"Seattle Times"

"McMurtry remains a good storyteller, and he remains a master of dialogue, doing a sort of frontier version of Oscar Wilde."--"Washington Post Book World"

"Gee-haw! Larry McMurtry is back in the yarn-slinging business--with a vengeance. . . . Readers will gobble up "Dead Man's Walk"--a wild and wooly read--from cover to cover."--"Denver Post"

""Dead Man's Walk". . . succeeds marvelously . . . resurrecting two brilliantly conceived characters and delivering a rousing tale of the Wild West."--Michael Berry, "San Francisco Chronicle

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"McMurtry does great characters. Call and McCrae are real, lifelike, believable, and lovable. . . . McMurtry's stories are brimming with passion and page-turning excitement. . . It's good, good stuff."--"Kansas City Star"

"In "Dead Man's Walk", McMurtry uses a simple, wry, immensely accessible storyteller's voice to ponder the same questions that Melville and Conrad did. This is a great book. . . . Larry McMurtry, at his best here, is one of the finest American novelists, ever. We are lucky he's around."--John Milius, "Los Angeles Times"

Book Description:

The first book in the Lonesome Dove quartet

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0671001167
• ISBN 13: 9780671001162
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback