Buffalo Girls - Hardcover

McMurtry, Larry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067168518X ISBN 13: 9780671685188

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1990

Synopsis

Living quietly in her friend Dora's Miles City whorehouse, Calamity Jane is plunged back into one final, bittersweet adventure by the arrival of her old friend and rival, Buffalo Bill Cody

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Review:

"The New York Times

A wonderfully warm and touching elegy to the passing of the frontier...a salute to the dying West, as rendered through McMurtry's wonderfully quirky characters.

"Newsday"

"Buffalo Girls" is as pure and sweet as a waltz played on a cold night. You'll love it.

"Houston Chronicle"

Not since "Lonesome Dove" has [Larry McMurtry] written so movingly about the disappearance of the West.

"The New York Times"

A wonderfully warm and touching elegy to the passing of the frontier...a salute to the dying West, as rendered through McMurtry's wonderfully quirky characters.

"The New York Times" A wonderfully warm and touching elegy to the passing of the frontier...a salute to the dying West, as rendered through McMurtry's wonderfully quirky characters.

"Houston Chronicle" Not since "Lonesome Dove" has [Larry McMurtry] written so movingly about the disappearance of the West.

"Newsday""Buffalo Girls" is as pure and sweet as a waltz played on a cold night. You'll love it.

"Newsday" "Buffalo Girls" is as pure and sweet as a waltz played on a cold night. You'll love it.

Houston Chronicle Not since Lonesome Dove has [Larry McMurtry] written so movingly about the disappearance of the West.

The New York Times A wonderfully warm and touching elegy to the passing of the frontier...a salute to the dying West, as rendered through McMurtry's wonderfully quirky characters.

Newsday Buffalo Girls is as pure and sweet as a waltz played on a cold night. You'll love it.

About the Author:

Larry McMurty is the son and grandson of cattlemen, and he spent most of his growing years in the ranching country of north-central Texas. He is a graduate of North Texas State in Denton and Rice University in Houston. With publication of his first novel, Horseman, Pass By, he won overwhelming acclaim as one of the most brilliant of America's contemporary novelists. In 1986 he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with Lonesome Drove. Several of his novels have been made into films.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 067168518X
• ISBN 13: 9780671685188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1