Lonesome Dove.

mass market paperback, 945 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 1986 by Pocket Books.

ISBN:
978-0-671-68390-0
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3 stars (3 reviews)

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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3 stars

I wanted to like this book more. I really did. It was just so bulky (in hardcover), and harsh (in events).

My favorite characters (out of what seemed like thousands) were Gus, Newt, and Janey. I also liked Clara, until she went off on her rant at Call near the end of the book.

Maybe I'd enjoy the miniseries more.

Review of 'Lonesome Dove' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I wanted to like this book more. I really did. It was just so bulky (in hardcover), and harsh (in events).

My favorite characters (out of what seemed like thousands) were Gus, Newt, and Janey. I also liked Clara, until she went off on her rant at Call near the end of the book.

Maybe I'd enjoy the miniseries more.

Subjects

  • Historical - General
  • Fiction - Western
  • Fiction
  • Westerns - General
  • Fiction / Westerns
  • General