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* Telegraph Days: A Novel Î PDF Download by * Larry McMurtry eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Telegraph Days: A Novel From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the Old West, told in the spunky courageous voice of a young woman named Nellie Courtright.When twenty-two-year-old Nellie Courtright and her teenage brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their father’s suicide on his new and unprosperous ranch, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca, where Jackson manages to secure a job as a sheriff's deputy, while Nellie, ev
| Title | : | Telegraph Days: A Novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.57 (942 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743250931 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-22 |
| Language | : | English |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the Old West, told in the spunky courageous voice of a young woman named Nellie Courtright.When twenty-two-year-old Nellie Courtright and her teenage brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their father’s suicide on his new and unprosperous ranch, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca, where Jackson manages to secure a job as a sheriff's deputy, while Nellie, ever resourceful, becomes the town’s telegrapher.Together, they inadvertently put Rita Blanca on the map when young Jackson succeeds in shooting down all six of the ferocious Yazee brothers in a gunfight that brings him lifelong fame but which he can never repeat because his success came purely out of luck.Propelled by her own energy and commonsense approach to life, Nellie meets and almost conquers the heart of Buffalo Bill, the man she will love most in her long life, and goes on to meet, and witness the exploits of, Billy the Kid, the Earp brothers, and Doc Holliday. Corral, the most famous gunfight in Western history, and eventually lives long enough to see the West and its gunfighters turned into movies.Full of life, love, shootouts, real Western heroes and villains, Telegraph Days is Larry McMurtry at his
HERStory Annie Potts lends her accent and dry, frank delivery to bring to life a story that was probably better in the telling than in the reading. When you're a captive audience (traffic to and from work), you are a lot more forgiving of farfetched plots.Some have criticized this book as having no plot. But this is a fictional autobiography. It goes with the flow of Nellie's life. Lives don't usually follow the dramatic pacing of fiction. True, the story is a bit contrived, but that's what makes it interesting, often humorous. It was certainly possible that Nellie had met many of the characters that she met. Agreed, it wasn't always plausib. D. Mikels said An Empty Desuetude. Pound for pound, few writers can compare with Larry McMurtry. The Pulitzer Prize winner has penned several contempary classics--among them, 'Terms of Endearment', 'The Last Picture Show', and the epic 'Lonesome Dove'.So it's beyond disappointment when a writer as talented as McMurtry spits out a contrived, one-dimensional shell of a novel. And that's being kind to TELEGRAPH DAYS, McMurtry's "alleged" spoof of the cheap dime store novels of the 19th Century. This is a Western dominated by unimagination; by the "adventures" of Nellie Courtright, a young woman who roams the frontier, subsequently rubbing elbows with all of the famous--. Funny, dramatic, one of his best Possibly his best work since Lonesome Dove and definitely since Boone's Lick. Reading McMurtry is like hearing a yarn on the back porch of a western ranch-house by a master story teller. Larry uses a precise balance of outrageous situations and humor, romance and randy sex, tragedy and drama, comforting predictability and suspenseful surprises with the most compelling and interesting characters. The plot flows in seemless cronology spanning most of the life of our heroine, Nellie Courtright. McMurtry's ability to speak from a woman's perspective always leaves me in awe as to how a heterosexual man can do such a thing with convincing
She also is little more than a reworking of several previous McMurtry heroines, especially The Berrybender Narratives' Tasmin. Other adventures await: she becomes manager of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, boldly faces down Jesse James's attempt to rob her and witnesses the gunfight at the O.K. Marie Antoinette "Nellie" Courtright and her brother, Jackson, bereft of family after their Virginia clan dies off one by one, arrive in Rita Blanca in 1876, in what would become the Oklahoma Panhandle, to remake themselves. In short order, Jackson shoots down an entire gang of outlaws, and Nellie promptly writes it up to launch a lucrative literary career. Beautiful and sexually insatiable, Nellie is a witty, sophisticated, accomplished, cunning, impudent and highly improbable woman—more than a match for any man she meets, which isn't saying much, since they're all idiots. But most readers won't be able to help cracking a
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