'If you read only one Western novel in your life, read this one. Larry McMurtry: Three Complete Novels (Lonesome Dove, Leaving Cheyenne, The Last Picture Show) by Larry McMurtry and a great selection of related books. 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.įrom the author of The Last Picture Show and Texasville, and screenplay writer of Brokeback Mountain, this is the third novel in the McMurtry's Lonesome Dove quartet, following on from Comanche Moon and prequels Streets of Laredo. 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. The novel opens 14 years later as Desiree, fleeing a violent marriage in D.C., returns home with a different relative: her 8-year-old daughter, Jude. It ends as a journey into the heart of every adventurer who ever lived. It begins in the office of The Hat Creek Cattle Company of the Rio Grande. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America. From Texas to Montana, it follows cowboys on a grueling cattle drive through the wilderness. Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning novel is a powerful, triumphant portrayal of the American West as it really was.
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