Lonesome Dove

Nothing less than a masterful odyssey Los Angeles Daily News Amply imagined and crisply, lovingly written. I haven't enjoyed a book more this year ... a marvellous novel Newsweek If you read only one Western novel in your life, read this one ... no other has ever approached the accomplishment of Lonesome Dove USA Today Moving ... thrilling ... perfectly realized ... unforgettable New York Times A triumph ... McMurtry is superb Chicago Tribune Flush with authenticity Wall Street Journal Larry McMurtry tops them all with his long-awaited epic, Lonesome Dove ... McCrae and Call are seasoned frontiersmen and ferocious Indian fighters ... Throughout Lonesome Dove, McMurtry examines their bond - an unspoken and hardly understood friendship. In western fiction, a like relationship seldom has been more finely crafted ... And the women! If there is a contemporary male novelist blessed with keener insight, I'd like to know about it ... What McMurtry has created is nothing less than a masterful odyssey, and an enduring addition to the lore of Western Americana Los Angeles Daily News Lonesome Dove is Larry McMurtry's loftiest novel, a wondrous work, drowned in love, melancholy, and yet, ultimately, exultant. In Lonesome Dove ... McMurtry celebrates a world abundant with calamity and a human spirit wistful but prevailing ... A compelling and memorable epic ... Masterful Los Angeles Times Books Review If you read only one Western novel in your life, read this one ... no other has ever approached the accomplishment of Lonesome Dove USA Today Moving ... thrilling ... perfectly realized ... unforgettable New York Times A triumph ... McMurtry is superb Chicago Tribune Flush with authenticity Wall Street Journal

Larry McMurtry is the author of more than thirty novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. He has also written memoirs and essays, and received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Brokeback Mountain.