Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove is a 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning western novel written by Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series, but the third instalment in the series chronologically. The story focuses on the relationship of several retired Texas Rangers and their adventures driving a cattle herd from Texas to Montana.
McMurtry originally developed the tale in 1972 for a...
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| Author: | Larry McMurtry |
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| First published: | 1985 |
| Genre: | Fiction , Novel |
| Awards: |
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1986
Spur Award for Best Western Novel1985
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Author of Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
Larry Jeff McMurtry (born June 3, 1936) is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and Academy Award winning screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in...
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Friend on a train asks Cowboy: If I read ONE Western novel which should it be? Cowboy recs Lonesome Dove, and I'm so glad he did, because I'd never have read it otherwise. Funny, grand, beautiful.