Larry McMurtry, in books like The Last Picture Show, has depicted the modern degeneration of the myth of the American West. 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. At first the novel seems the kind of anti-mythic, anti-heroic story one /5(K). Dead Man's Walk, Volume 3 (Lonesome Dove) McMurtry, Larry (Author) Published by Pocket Books, New York, New York () ISBN ISBN Seller: Adventures Underground, Richland, WA, U.S.A. Contact seller. Seller Rating: First Edition. Lonesome Dove: a novel by Larry McMurtry, New York: Simon and Schuster, =. p, ISBN: X. 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/5(K).
Lonesome Dove, Paperback by McMurtry, Larry, ISBN , ISBN , Brand New, Free shipping in the US Chronicles a cattle drive in the nineteenth century from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade. Book Description. Bestselling winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Lonesome Dove is an American classic. First published in , Larry McMurtry's epic novel combined flawless writing with a storyline and setting that gripped the popular imagination, and ultimately resulted in a series of four novels and an Emmy-winning television miniseries. However, due to casting issues, the movie was abandoned. Larry McMurtry later turned the Lonesome Dove script into a full-length Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The novel was later re-adapted to a four-part television miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, and Robert Urich. First Edition Identification and Notes.
My introduction to the fiction of Larry McMurtry is Lonesome Dove, consistently ranked as one of the best westerns whether the conversation is print or television. Published the year of the Texas Sesquicentennial in and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction the following year, the magnum opus is a magnificent exploration of male friendship, with a dozen supporting characters of both genders who McMurtry could've dedicated a novella to (and often attempts to over pages). Print. Horn writes on entertainment for The Times. “Lonesome Dove” is Larry McMurtry’s loftiest novel, a wondrous work, drowned in love, melancholy, and yet, ultimately, exultant. In. Lonesome Dove, a Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry, is part of a trilogy called The Lonesome Dove Series. The story revolves around the relationships between several retired Texas Rangers and their adventures driving a cattle herd from Texas to Montana. Set in the closing years of the Old West, the novel explores themes of old age, death, unrequited love, and friendship.
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