- fiction, western cattle drives, cowboys, Man-woman relationships
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.
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Classical in form, epic, earnest and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Larry McMurtry
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 945
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Simon & Schuster, Pocket
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- Spanish, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9785237003703
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First sentence
“WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake-not a very big one.”
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