Lonesome Dove
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (890 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0000632ZJ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Periodic Carpenter said Masterpiece of fiction far exceeding my expectations. The Story:This book is a masterpiece. It's captivating and, frankly, quite remarkable. It's more than a western. It's more than a novel. It's a wonderfully thought-out story about America in an almost mythical time with so much depth and so many layers that reward readers over and over again. The story, in fact, has so much depth and so many layers, that it would be easy for a reader to miss the one consistent, central theme of the story. Thus the reader must work attentively through it just as the cowboys must, lest they find themselves lost looking for the Powder River in a mighty dust storm. The story is. "ONE OF THE GREAT READS" according to Timothy Hallinan. I can't believe I've reached my ripe old age without ever having read LONESOME DOVE, especially because I've read practically everything else Larry McMurtry has written, even his nonfiction, But I hadn't picked this one up until about a month ago, at which point I just put my life on hold for eight days and followed Call and McCrae along the endless trail from South Texas to Montana. In the past couple of years I've read a lot of western novels, a genre I'd never really looked at before, and I have to say that LONESOME DOVE is at the top of the list, above even such great books as Edwin Shrake's BLESSED McG. "Great characters, but disappointing ending" according to Christopher Allen Miller. This is a long book, but did well to keep me interested. The characters are complex, and struggle against themselves, other characters, and nature in this epic western tale. This is a story of a group of cowboys that drive a heard of cattle from southern Texas to northern Montana, and the difficulties they face along the way. I was amazed by the challenges they faced on such a long trip across the unsettled territories of the middle of the country in the 1800s.I was frustrated by the end of the story, which is the only aspect that I did not care for. I felt like another chapter was needed to bring a little
At first the novel seems the kind of anti-mythic, anti-heroic story one might expect: the main protagonists are a drunken and inarticulate pair of former Texas Rangers turned horse rustlers. . Larry McMurtry, in books like The Last Picture Show, has depicted the modern degeneration of the myth of the American West. Their mission may be historically insignificant, or pointless--McMurtry is smart enough to address both possibilities--but there is an undoubted valor in their lives. Yet when the trail begins, the story picks up an energy and a drive
He lives in Archer City, Texas. Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays.
Richly authentic, beautifully written, and always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember.. A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers