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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Lovingly written, wonderful characterisations, realistic cowboy tale. A bit too realistic in some parts but we are given the understanding that these events were more in line with the true old west than many 20th Century media would have us believe. The novel had an authentic feel to it and was rich with a history that leads one to realize that McMurtry knows of which he speaks. A true epic western with color and detail. I just could not put it down. 1hitwonder | Jun 25, 2009 |   There have been enough blurbs about it, and it won the Pulitzer (I think). Another one I pick up and reread (anywhere in the book) when I have run out of new books to read. Other books in the series are also very good, especially Streets of Laredo. This is not just a western, whatever that usually is like. It is a great novel. (  )bjgoff689 | Jun 3, 2009 | Really liked this book. Loved the characters. (  )ylazear | May 2, 2009 | Epic novel depicting the harsh life lived by creative characters in and around the Hat Creek Cattle Company - Gus, Captain Call, Dewt, Pea Eye, Lorena, Clara. The tale weaves a story around the trek from Lonesome Dove, Texas to the unknown territory of Montana - the camaraderie that develops between the characters and the unexpected surprises so deftly told. I enjoyed this story, as it gave me a view into the lives of a different time and a different world. Augustus McCrae becomes my unexpected hero as his kind heart mixes with extraordinary bravery to have endeared himself not only to the other characters, but the reader as well. jodeocean | Apr 28, 2009 | 1  One of my all time favorites. Only book I've read more than twice. Gus and Call are great! ( )plunkinberry | Apr 27, 2009 | 0.022 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 067168390X, Mass Market Paperback)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 might expect: the main protagonists are a drunken and inarticulate pair of former Texas Rangers turned horse rustlers. Yet when the trail begins, the story picks up an energy and a drive that makes heroes of these men. Their mission may be historically insignificant, or pointless--McMurtry is smart enough to address both possibilities--but there is an undoubted valor in their lives. The result is a historically aware, intelligent, romantic novel of the mythic west that won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:51 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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