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Living quietly in her friend Dora's Miles City whorehouse, Calamity Jane is plunged back into one final, bittersweet adventure by the arrival of her old friend and rival, Buffalo Bill Cody.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Larry McMurtry
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Simon and Schuster, Books On Tape
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780685389171
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