Lonesome Dove

Author(s): Larry McMurtry

Fiction | Twizel Bookclub

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.


 


A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.


 


Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember.


Product Information

Larry McMurtry was born in Texas. His first novel, Horseman, Pass By, was filmed as Hud; his second, Leaving Cheyenne, was filmed as Lovin' Molly; his third, The Last Picture Show, also filmed, won him full-scale recognition in the United States. The cinematic treatment of Terms of Endearment swept the boards at the 1984 Academy Awards, winning Oscars in several categories including Best Picture. Larry McMurtry now lives in Washington, where he runs a bookshop.

General Fields

  • : 9781447203056
  • : Pan Macmillan
  • : Campbell Books Ltd
  • : 0.607
  • : March 2011
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : October 2011
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Larry McMurtry
  • : Paperback
  • : 1011
  • : English
  • : 813/.54
  • : 960
  • : FA