Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
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Author: Larry McMurtryEdition: School & Library Binding
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1988-12-15
ISBN: 0833518496
Number of pages: 960
Publisher: Turtleback
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Book Review: TIMELESS, EPIC, GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
Summary: 5 Stars
I first read Lonesome Dove in 1986; at the end, I cried so hard, I was literally sick with grief. When Lorena is mourning Gus, and talks about how everyone else will go on with their lives and forget him, but that she will remember him every time the sun rises and sets, my heart just breaks. Since then I have re-read the novel many times, always with exactly the same amount of awe and enjoyment. When I heard that Robert Duval was to be Gus in the miniseries, and Tommy Lee Jones Cap'n Call, I thought them miscast; but to my great surprise, they both turned out exquisite performances. The miniseries is one of my favorite movies of all times, and I've watched it half a dozen times. Timeless themes of friendship, loyalty, courage, duty and the sense of adventure that built this country permeate this novel, which to me is true perfection.
Summary of Lonesome Dove
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Set in the late 19th century, this novel chronicles a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegadeLarry McMurtry, in books like The Last Picture Show, has depicted the modern degeneration of the myth of the American West. The subject of Lonesome Dove, cowboys herding cattle on a great trail-drive, seems like the very stuff of that cliched myth, but McMurtry bravely tackles the task of creating meaningful literature out of it. At first the novel seems the kind of anti-mythic, anti-heroic story one might expect: the main protagonists are a drunken and inarticulate pair of former Texas Rangers turned horse rustlers. Yet when the trail begins, the story picks up an energy and a drive that makes heroes of these men. Their mission may be historically insignificant, or pointless--McMurtry is smart enough to address both possibilities--but there is an undoubted valor in their lives. The result is a historically aware, intelligent, romantic novel of the mythic west that won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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