Western
Fiction
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All The Pretty Horses
All the Pretty Horses - the first volume of the Borders Trilogy - tells of young
John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Across the border
Mexico beckons - beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With two
companions, he sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place
where dreams are paid for in blood.
Synopsis
With the 1998 publication of Cities Of The Plain, Cormac McCarthy's acclaimed
Border trilogy is now complete. The first and most admired book of the series is
McCarthy's National Book Award-winning All The Pretty Horses. In highly
evocative prose that puts the reader firmly in the saddle, All The Pretty Horses
follows the progress of laconic 16-year-old Texan John Grady Cole, his pal Lacey
Rawlins, and the mysterious young sharp shooter Jimmy Blevins as they ride
across the border into Mexico in search of adventure.
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Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
Bestselling winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, Lonesome Dove is an American
classic. First published in 1985, Larry McMurtry's epic novel combined flawless
writing with a storyline and setting that gripped the popular imagination, and
ultimately resulted in a series of four novels and an Emmy-winning television
miniseries. Now, with an introduction by the author, Lonesome Dove is reprinted
in an S&S Classic Edition.
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, the author of Terms of Endearment, is his
long-awaited masterpiece, the major novel at last of the American West as it
really was.
A love story, an adventure, an American epic, Lonesome Dove embraces all the
West -- legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and
settlers -- in a novel that recreates the central American experience, the most
enduring of our national myths.
Set in the late nineteenth century, Lonesome Dove is the story of a cattle drive
from Texas to Montana -- and much more. It is a drive that represents for
everybody involved not only a daring, even a foolhardy, adventure, but a part of
the American Dream -- the attempt to carve out of the last remaining wilderness
a new life.
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Dead Man's Walk
Dead Man's Walk is the first, extraordinary book in the epic Lonesome Dove
tetralogy, in which Larry McMurtry breathed new life into the vanished American
West and created two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction:
Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call.
As young Texas Rangers, Gus and Call have much to learn about survival in a land
fraught with perils: not only the blazing heat and raging tornadoes, roiling
rivers and merciless Indians but also the deadly whims of soldiers.
On their first expeditions--led by incompetent officers and accompanied by the
robust, dauntless whore known as the Great Western--they will face death at the
hands of the cunning Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump and the silent Apache
Gomez. They will be astonished by the Mexican army. And Gus will meet the love
of his life
