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Bestselling winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, Lonesome Dove is an American classic. First published in 1985, Larry McMurtry's epic novel combined flawless writing with a storyline and setting that gripped the popular imagination, and ultimately resulted in a series of four novels and an Emmy-winning television miniseries. Now, with an introduction by the author, Lonesome Dove is reprinted in an S&S Classic Edition.
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, the author of Terms of Endearment, is his long-awaited masterpiece, the major novel at last of the American West as it really was.
A love story, an adventure, an American epic, Lonesome Dove embraces all the West -- legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settiers -- in a novel that recreates the central American experience, the most enduring of our national myths.
Set in the late nineteenth century, Lonesome Dove is the story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana -- and much more. It is a drive that represents for everybody involved not only a daring, even a foolhardy, adventure, but a part of the American Dream -- the attempt to carve out of the last remaining wilderness a new life.
Augustus McCrae and W. F. Call are former Texas Rangers, partners and friends who have shared hardship and danger together without ever quite understanding (or wanting to understand) each other's deepest emotions. Gus is the romantic, a reluctant rancher who has a way with women and the sense to leave well enough alone. Call is a driven, demanding man, a natural authority figure with no patience for weaknesses, and not many of his own. He is obsessed with the dream of creating his own empire, and with the need to conceal a secret sorrow of his own. The two men could hardly be more different, but both are tough, redoubtable fighters who have learned to count on each other, if nothing else.
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fiction, western cattle drives, cowboys, Man-woman relationships, Western Fiction, historical fiction, Historical - General, Fiction / General, Fiction - Historical, Texas Rangers, Cattle drives, Western stories, Roman américain, Cattle drives -- Fiction, Translations into Russian, Adventure stories, Translations from English, Fiction, westerns, West (u.s.), fiction, Call, woodrow (fictitious character), fiction, Mccrae, augustus (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, romance, westernPeople
Woodrow F. Call, Augustus McCrae, Pea Eye Parker, Joshua Deets, Newt Dobbs, Jake Spoon, Dishwater Boggett, Bolivar, Po Campo, Lorena Wood, Blue Duck, July Johnson, Elmira Johnson, Roscoe Brown, Clara Allen, Jimmy Rainey, Bill Spettle, Pete Spettle, Ben Rainey, Soupy Jones, Needle Nelson, Jasper Fant, Bert Borum, Lippy Jones, Sean O'Brien, Allen O'BrienPlaces
West United States, West (U.S.), Texas, Lonesome Dove, Fort Smith, Arkansas, Montana, Yellowstone River, Platte River, Ogallala, Nebraska, Mexico, San Francisco, Canadian River, Fort Worth, St. Louis, Wyoming, Musselshell River, Miles City, Missouri River, Milk River, Colorado, New Mexico, Santa RosaTimes
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Lonesome Dove: a novel
2010-06, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Paperback
in English
- 25th anniversary ed., Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed. (11)
1439195269 9781439195260
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Lonesome Dove
2005, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, Brand: Simon n Schuster, Simon & Schuster
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in English
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Lonesome Dove
2002?, Pocket Books
School & Library Binding
in English
- First Pocket Books printing (37)
0833518496 9780833518491
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Lonesome Dove: A Novel
2000, Simon & Schuster, Simon and Schuster
Hardcover
in English
- S & S Classic Edition
068487122X 9780684871226
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Odinokii golub £: [roman v 2-kh knigakh]
1998, Izd-vo AST, "Novosti"
in Russian
5702009258 9785702009254
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Paloma Solitaria/Lonesome Dove
June 1994, Distribooks Inc
Paperback
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- Spanish edition
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Lonesome Dove (Vol 1 and 2)
October 1992, Audio Literature
Audio Cassette
in English
- Unabridged edition
1558007199 9781558007192
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Lonesome Dove Original Soundtrack
April 1990, Dove Audio/new Star+media
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Lonesome Dove
1989?, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Media Tie-In Edition, First Pocket Books printing (13)
067162461X 9780671624613
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Lonesome Dove
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Lonesome Dove
1986 August, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- First Pocket Books printing
0671623249 9780671623241
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Lonesome Dove: A Novel
1985, Simon and Schuster
Hardcover
in English
- printing (15)
0671504207 9780671504205
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"WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake-not a very big one."
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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.
A love story, an adventure, an American epic, Lonesome Dove embraces all the West--legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers--in a novel that recreates the Central American experience, the most enduring of our national myths.
Set in the late nineteenth century. Lonesome Dove is the story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana -- and much more. It is a drive that represents for everybody involved not only a Darin, even a foolhardy, adventure, but a part of the American Dream--the attempt to carve out of the last remaining wilderness a new life.
Augustus McCrae and W. F. Call are former Texas Rangers, partners and friends who have shared hardship and danger together without ever quite understanding (or wanting to understand) each other's deepest emotions. Gus is the romantic, a reluctant rancher who has a way with women and the sense to leave well enough alone. Call is a driven, demanding man, a natural authority figure with no patience for weakness, and not many of his own. He is obsessed with the dream of creating his own empire, and with the need to conceal a secret sorrow of his own. The two men could hardly be more different, but both are tough, redoubtable fighters who have learned to count on each other, if nothing else.
Call's dream not only drags Gus along in its wake, but draws in a vast cast of characters:
-Lorena, the whore with the proverbial heart of gold, whom Gus (and almost everyone else) loves, and who. Survives one of the most terrifying experiences any woman could have...
-Elmira, the restless, reluctant wife of a small-time Arkansas sheriff, who runs away from the security of marriage to become part of the great Western adventure...
--Blue Duck, the sinister Indian renegade, one of the most frightening villains in American fiction, whose steely capacity for cruelty affects the lives of everyone in the book...
-Newt, the young cowboy for whom the long and dangerous journey from Texas to Montana is in fact a search for his own identity...
-Jake, the dashing, womanising ex-ranger, a comrade-in-arms of Gus and Call, whose weakness leads him to an unexpected fate...
-July Johnson, husband of Elmira, whose love for her draws him out of his secure life into a kind of hero...
Lonesome Dove seeps from the Rio Grande (where Gus and Call acquire the cattle for their long drive by raiding the Mexicans) to the Montana highlands (where they find themselves besieged by the last, defiant remnants of an older West).
It is an epic of love, heroism, loyalty, honour, and betrayal--faultlessly written, unfailingly dramatic. Lonesome Dove is the novel about the West that American literature--and the American reader--has long been waiting for.
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