Lonesome Dove

A Novel

Hardcover, 857 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2000 by Simon & Schuster.

ISBN:
978-0-684-87122-6
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OCLC Number:
45255029

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3 stars (3 reviews)

Bestselling winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, Lonesome Dove is an American classic. First published in 1985, Larry McMurtry's epic novel combined flawless writing with a storyline and setting that gripped the popular imagination, and ultimately resulted in a series of four novels and an Emmy-winning television miniseries. Now, with an introduction by the author, Lonesome Dove is reprinted in an S&S Classic Edition. Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, the author of Terms of Endearment, is his long-awaited masterpiece, the major novel 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 settiers -- 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 …

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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.

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

  • Cattle drives -- Fiction
  • Cowboys -- Fiction