Lonesome dove
McMurtry, Larry2011
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It begins in the office of The Hat Creek Cattle Company of the Rio Grande. It ends as a journey into the heart of every adventurer who ever lived. It begins in the office of The Hat Creek Cattle Company of the Rio Grande.It ends as a journey into the heart of every adventurer who ever lived . . .From the author of The Last Picture Show and Texasville - here is Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece. A powerful, triumphant portrayal of the American West as it really was.More than a love story, more than an adventure, Lonesome Dove is an epic: a monumental novel which embraces the spirit of the last defiant wilderness of America.Legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers - Lonesome Dove is the central, enduring American experience dramatically recreated in a magnificent story of heroism and love; of honour, loyalty and betrayal.
Main title:
Lonesome dove / Larry McMurtry.
Author:
McMurtry, Larry, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Pan Books, 2011.
Collation:
843 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
Awards:
Pulitzer Prize
ISBN:
9781447203056 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.54
LC class:
PS3563.A319
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
332903