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Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
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one of my favorite books in the world. ( )
  pwagner2 | Oct 13, 2009 |
loved it! Wonderful story. I felt like I was on the cattle drive with them. Characters touched my heart. ( )
  MandyPFW | Aug 28, 2009 |
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.
1 vote 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 |
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Epigraph
All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream. T.K. Whipple, Study Out the Land
Dedication
For Maureen Orth,
and
In memory of
the nine McMurtry boys
(1878-1983)
"Once in the saddle they
Used to go dashing . . ."
First words
When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one.
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SeriesLonesome Dove: Publication Order (book 1), Lonesome Dove: Chronological Order (book 3)
People/CharactersAugustus McCrae, Woodrow F. Call, Newt Dobbs, Joshua Deets, Lorena Wood, Jake Spoon (show all 14)
Important placesLonesome Dove, Texas, Ogalala, Nebraska
Awards and honorsPulitzer Prize (Fiction, 1986), National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (Fiction, 1985), PEN/Faulkner Award finalist (1986), New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1985), Spur Award (Western Novel, 1985), ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults (2001.01 | Western, 2001) (show all 7)
EpigraphAll America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but w... (show all)
DedicationFor Maureen Orth, and In memory of the nine McMurtry boys (1878-1983) "Once in the saddle they Used to go dashing . . ."
First wordsWhen Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one.
Last words(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)
Book description

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.

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