Lonesome Dove: The Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel Set in the American West

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Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning novel is a powerful, triumphant portrayal of the American West as it really was. From Texas to Montana, it follows cowboys on a grueling cattle drive through the wilderness. 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 . . . 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. From 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. '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

Larry McMurtry was born in Texas. His first novel, Horseman, Pass By, was filmed as Hud; his second, Leaving Cheyenne, was filmed as Lovin' Molly; his third, The Last Picture Show, also filmed, won him full-scale recognition in the United States. The cinematic treatment of Terms of Endearment swept the boards at the 1984 Academy Awards, winning Oscars in several categories including Best Picture. Larry McMurtry now lives in Washington, where he runs a bookshop.

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 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