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Lonesome Dove»rank: 71741par: Larry McMurtry
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Larry 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 ... |
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Books: A Memoir»rank: 4454par: Larry McMurtry
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008: ln writing nearly 40 books, including the Pultizer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry has emerged as one of America's most beloved bookmen. ln Books: A Memoir, McMurtry shares his lifelong passion and dogged pursuit of books. ln short, gemlike chapters, he paints a fascinating picture of the landscape of American book culture and bookselling over a 50-year period. The story is as dusty, musty, and crusty as any of McMurtry's fictionalized Westerns, filled with characters who seem like they stepped out of ... |
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Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay»rank: 56667par: Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008: ln writing nearly 40 books, including the Pultizer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry has emerged as one of America's most beloved bookmen. ln Books: A Memoir, McMurtry shares his lifelong passion and dogged pursuit of books. ln short, gemlike chapters, he paints a fascinating picture of the landscape of American book culture and bookselling over a 50-year period. The story is as dusty, musty, and crusty as any of McMurtry's fictionalized Westerns, filled with characters who seem like they stepped out of ... |
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Streets of Laredo»rank: 43155par: Larry McMurtry
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008: ln writing nearly 40 books, including the Pultizer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry has emerged as one of America's most beloved bookmen. ln Books: A Memoir, McMurtry shares his lifelong passion and dogged pursuit of books. ln short, gemlike chapters, he paints a fascinating picture of the landscape of American book culture and bookselling over a 50-year period. The story is as dusty, musty, and crusty as any of McMurtry's fictionalized Westerns, filled with characters who seem like they stepped out of ... |
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A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove»rank: 110217par: Bill Wittliff
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008: ln writing nearly 40 books, including the Pultizer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry has emerged as one of America's most beloved bookmen. ln Books: A Memoir, McMurtry shares his lifelong passion and dogged pursuit of books. ln short, gemlike chapters, he paints a fascinating picture of the landscape of American book culture and bookselling over a 50-year period. The story is as dusty, musty, and crusty as any of McMurtry's fictionalized Westerns, filled with characters who seem like they stepped out of ... |
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The Facts of Life: and Other Dirty Jokes»rank: 17322par: Willie Nelson
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008: ln writing nearly 40 books, including the Pultizer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry has emerged as one of America's most beloved bookmen. ln Books: A Memoir, McMurtry shares his lifelong passion and dogged pursuit of books. ln short, gemlike chapters, he paints a fascinating picture of the landscape of American book culture and bookselling over a 50-year period. The story is as dusty, musty, and crusty as any of McMurtry's fictionalized Westerns, filled with characters who seem like they stepped out of ... |
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Sin Killer»rank: 3122par: Larry McMurtry
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Larry McMurtry's Sin Killer is a wildly entertaining ride through the untamed Great Plains. The first installment of a proposed tetralogy, The Berrybender Narratives, Sin Killer follows the adventures of the Berrybenders, a large, noble English family traveling the Missouri River in 1832. This deeply self-absorbed and spoiled family leaves England for the unknown of the American West, based solely on a 'whim' and Lord Berrybender's desire to 'shoot different animals from those he shot at home.' The novel joins the family as they make their way toward Yellowstone ... |
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Comanche Moon»rank: 31578par: Larry McMurtry
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln a book that serves as a both a sequel to Dead Man's Walk and a prequel to the beloved Lonesome Dove, McMurtry fills in the missing chapters in the Call and McCrae saga. lt is a fantastic read, in many ways the best and gutsiest of the series. We join the Texas Rangers in their waning lndian-fighting years. The Comanches, after one last desperate raid led by the fearsome-but-aging Buffalo Hump, are almost defeated, though Buffalo Hump's son, Blue Duck, still terrorizes the relentless flow of settlers and ... |
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Dead Man's Walk»rank: 121183par: Larry McMurtry
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln this prequel to McMurtry's 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call are invincible young bucks, Texas Rangers, full of youthful energy and, quite frankly, full of themselves. That is until they're utterly consumed by the vicious battlefield of the early-19th-century Wild West. Their journey takes them across barren deserts and raging rivers and through steep and snowy mountains, often on foot and with barely enough provisions and clothing to keep them from certain death. The constant threat of attack by Comanches keeps them awake nights, ... |
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Lonesome Dove: A Novel»rank: 14614par: Larry McMurtry
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Larry 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 ... |