![]() ![]() 'If you read only one Western novel in your life, read this one. This novel was set in post-World War II Texas and. 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.įrom 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. McMurtrys first and much acclaimed novel was entitled Horseman, Pass By, which was published in 1961. Fiction 1961: Horseman, Pass By adapted for film as Hud 1963: Leaving Cheyenne 1985: Lonesome Dove, 1986 Pulitzer Prize winner 1993: Streets of Laredo. 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. It ends as a journey into the heart of every adventurer who ever lived. It begins in the office of The Hat Creek Cattle Company of the Rio Grande. ![]() ![]() From Texas to Montana, it follows cowboys on a grueling cattle drive through the wilderness. Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning novel is a powerful, triumphant portrayal of the American West as it really was. ![]()
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