Lonesome Dove.

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Larry McMurtry: Lonesome Dove. (1986, Pocket Books)

945 pages

English language

Published Dec. 24, 1986 by Pocket Books.

ISBN:
978-0-671-68390-0
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5 stars (1 review)

Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, the author of Terms of Endearment, is his long-awaited masterpiece, the major noel at last of the American West as it really was.

A love story, an adventure, an American epic, Lonesome Dove embraces all the West--legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers--in a novel that recreates the Central American experience, the most enduring of our national myths.

Set in the late nineteenth century. Lonesome Dove is the story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana -- and much more. It is a drive that represents for everybody involved not only a Darin, even a foolhardy, adventure, but a part of the American Dream--the attempt to carve out of the last remaining wilderness a new life.

Augustus McCrae and W. F. Call are former Texas Rangers, partners and friends who have shared hardship and danger together without ever quite …

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5 stars

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.