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Larry McMurtry - Last Kind Words Saloon, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2015

Last Kind Words Saloon

Av Larry McMurtry

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This is Larry McMurtry's heartfelt tribute to a bygone era of the American West. In his final novel, he returns to the vivid and unsparing portrait of the nineteenth-century and cowboy lifestyle made so memorable in his classic Lonesome Dove.Long Grass, Texas. Once hailed as heroes for their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge – more often with a mean look than a pistol – the taciturn Wyatt Earp now idles away his time between bottles, while the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc Holliday is more adept at poker than extracting teeth.With the buffalo herds gone, the Comanche defeated, and vast swaths of the Great Plains enclosed by cattle ranches, Wyatt and Doc live on, even as the storied West that forged their myths disappears.McMurtry traces their rich and varied friendship from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver to Tombstone, Arizona to the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral, rendered here in his stark and peerless prose. As harsh and beautiful, and as brutal and captivating as the open range it depicts, The Last Kind Words Saloon celebrates the genius of one of the most original American writers.Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-02-12
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Filformat: EPUB
  • Kopieringsskydd: LCP
  • ISBN: 9781447274551
  • Förlag: Pan Macmillan
  • Medarbetare: Stuart Wilson
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Larry McMurtry was the author of more than thirty novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. He also wrote memoirs and essays, and received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Brokeback Mountain.

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Larry McMurtry possesses one of the most engaging, tempting-to-imitate voices in contemporary American fiction, a voice so smooth and mellow you can almost hear the ice clink against the glass as he talks New York Times Book Review By turns droll, stark, wry, or raunchy, this peripatetic novel...will satisfy many readers who long for more from literary icon McMurtry Library Journal In this "ballad in prose" as McMurtry describes his latest book, he paints the familiar historical characters in unfamiliar ways ... lovely People A deftly narrated, often comically subversive work of fiction ... If Lonesome Dove is a chronicle of the cattle-driving West that contains within its vast, broad ranges a small but heartrending intimate tragedy of paternal neglect, The Last Kind Words Saloon is a dark postmodernist modernist comedy -- Joyce Carol Oates New York Review of Books

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