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Read ! The Last Kind Words Saloon: A Novel PDF by ^ Larry McMurtry eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. The Last Kind Words Saloon: A Novel professor said Disappointing. Wow. Been a McMurtry fan a long time, even before Lonesome Dove when I read Horseman Pass By in grad school. His first work, it read well, but nothing like the later referenced Lonesome Dove. As a Texas writer/teacher, I wanted more - a lot more than a rehashing of some of the same tales of Doc and Wyatt that have been told a hundred times. I am disappointed with this book, have been with the move away from what he does so well to some of the stranger books he's wri
| Title | : | The Last Kind Words Saloon: A Novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.17 (707 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0871407868 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
Born and raised in Texas, Larry McMurtry is an award-winning novelist, essayist, Oscar-winning screenwriter, and avid book collector. He lives in Archer City, Texas. . His novels include The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, and Lonesome Dove
--John Mort . From Booklist Many famous western characters make cameos in McMurtry’s first novel in five years, which continues in the farcical vein of the Berrybender series. Observing Goodnight from the sidelines are two wisecracking ne’er-do-wells, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, who, after a brief stint with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, drift down to Tombstone, where Wyatt’s brothers, Virgil and Warren, have taken up the law and saloon-keeping, respectively. Other than Goodnight, Wyatt is the only developed character: he’s a wife beater and alcoholic with a quick temper. Maybe McMurtry’s version is truer than all the romanticized ones, but Gus McCrae from Lonesome Dove will roll in his grave. The famous O.K. Corral f
professor said Disappointing. Wow. Been a McMurtry fan a long time, even before Lonesome Dove when I read Horseman Pass By in grad school. His first work, it read well, but nothing like the later referenced Lonesome Dove. As a Texas writer/teacher, I wanted more - a lot more than a rehashing of some of the same tales of Doc and Wyatt that have been told a hundred times. I am disappointed with this book, have been with the move away from what he does so well to some of the stranger books he's written and co-written, and will not be a follower of future books. Lonesome Dove was as good as he . "An easy read" according to Michael Bolland. As always, great economy of style making it so easy to read and yet the characters are never short - changed by inadequate description either physically or of personality.. "I was warned this wasn't Larry's best work, and" according to Angela K. Dunn. I was warned this wasn't Larry's best work, andthey were right. Didn't really enjoy it but I sure love Larry McMurtry.
Evoking the greatest characters and legends of the Old Wild West, here McMurtry tells the story of the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Opening in the settlement of Long Grass, Texasnot quite in Kansas, and nearly New Mexicowe encounter the taciturn Wyatt, whiling away his time in between bottles, and the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc, more adept at poker than extracting teeth. Now hailed as heroes for their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodgemore often with a mean look than a pistolWyatt and Doc are living out the last days of a way of life that is passing into history, two men never more aware of the growing distance between their lives and their legends.Along with Wyatt's wife, Jessie, who runs the titular saloon, we meet Lord Ernle, an English baron; the exotic courtesan San Saba, "the most beautiful whore on the plains"; Charlie Goodnight, the Texas Ranger turned cattle driver last seen in McMurtry's Comanche Moon, and Nellie Courtright, the witty and irrepressible heroine of Telegraph
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