Lonesome Dove: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (776 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1439195269 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 864 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Simple folks in hard times Note, I haven't watched TV or movies for 30+ years, so I did not see the TV series. I'd rather see a story starting from a page, than to the eyes, than to between the ears- much better graphics that way.This novel is a wonderful read of simple folks, living in a simpler, but very hard times, in our country's history. The complexity of trying to understand these folks way of thinking ( and at time. "Beautiful writing, but overly wrong and a bit repetitive." according to Randi A Samuelson-Brown. I've pondered the review I was going to write (if I was even going to write one) - so here goes. The writing is beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. However, a lot of time is spent on trivial details that the reader doesn't really care about. It is also too long, and repeats in places. At times I was reminded of Charles Dickens, who got paid by the word. There are also some shifts about who is thinki. "exhausting but fulfilling" according to Nancy Anne. I give very few books five stars--only two I can think of--Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell & Beach Music by Pat Conroy. Besides an intriguing story line, the five star books must have beautiful language, historical value, memorable characters, and teach me something new. Lonesome Dove had all that except the beautiful language--and you might call the no frills, straight-forward prose effi
The subject of Lonesome Dove, cowboys herding cattle on a great trail-drive, seems like the very stuff of that cliched myth, but McMurtry bravely tackles the task of creating meaningful literature out of it. 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 that makes heroes of these men. The result is a hist
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, 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