Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, Book 3) - Softcover

McMurtry, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447203054 ISBN 13: 9781447203056

Publisher: Pan, 2011

Synopsis

It begins in the office of The Hat Creek Cattle Company of the Rio Grande.
It ends as a journey into the heart of every adventurer who ever lived . . .

From the author of The Last Picture Show and Texasville – here is Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece. A powerful, triumphant portrayal of the American West as it really was.

More than a love story, more than an adventure, Lonesome Dove is an epic: a monumental novel which embraces the spirit of the last defiant wilderness of America.

Legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers – Lonesome Dove is the central, enduring American experience dramatically recreated in a magnificent story of heroism and love; of honour, loyalty and betrayal.

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Review:

Nothing less than a masterful odyssey (Los Angeles Daily News)

Amply imagined and crisply, lovingly written. I haven't enjoyed a book more this year . . . a marvellous novel (Newsweek)

If you read only one Western novel in your life, read this one . . . no other has ever approached the accomplishment of Lonesome Dove (USA Today)

Moving . . . thrilling . . . perfectly realized . . . unforgettable (New York Times)

A triumph . . . McMurtry is superb (Chicago Tribune)

Flush with authenticity (Wall Street Journal)

Larry McMurtry tops them all with his long-awaited epic, Lonesome Dove . . . McCrae and Call are seasoned frontiersmen and ferocious Indian fighters . . . Throughout Lonesome Dove, McMurtry examines their bond - an unspoken and hardly understood friendship. In western fiction, a like relationship seldom has been more finely crafted . . . And the women! If there is a contemporary male novelist blessed with keener insight, I'd like to know about it . . . What McMurtry has created is nothing less than a masterful odyssey, and an enduring addition to the lore of Western Americana (Los Angeles Daily News)

Lonesome Dove is Larry McMurtry's loftiest novel, a wondrous work, drowned in love, melancholy, and yet, ultimately, exultant. In Lonesome Dove . . . McMurtry celebrates a world abundant with calamity and a human spirit wistful but prevailing . . . A compelling and memorable epic . . . Masterful (Los Angeles Times Books Review)

Book Description:

The Pulitzer Prize winning novel – a story of love, honour, loyalty and betrayal.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pan
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1447203054
• ISBN 13: 9781447203056
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 848