school & library binding, 945 pages
English language
Published Aug. 24, 1986 by Pocket Books.
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. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember. (back cover)
One of the few books that’s truly an epic that I’ve read. Just a damn good time. Every chapter a short story. One of the most enjoyable ways to spend 900+ pages.
This is a genre book. Through and through. But it reminded me oddly of Mad Max: Fury Road. It’s in its genre entirely and doing it insanely well.
