Streets of Laredo - (Lonesome Dove) by Larry McMurtry (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The sequel to "Lonesome Dove, " brining the cycle to a magnificent close.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry comes the final book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy--an exhilarating tale of legend and heroism, <i>Streets of Laredo</i> is classic Texas and Western literature at its finest.</b> <p/>Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit. Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena--once Gus McCrae's sweetheart. This long chase leads them across the last wild stretches of the West into a hellhole known as Crow Town and, finally, into the vast, relentless plains of the Texas frontier.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Streets of Laredo</i> is a splendid addition to the literary portrait of McMurtry's native Texas and the West that he has been creating for three decades. It's also one of his most affectingly melancholy books. . . . The characters are as finely etched as any McMurtry has ever minted.--<i>Newsweek</i><br><br>A marvelous novel in its own right and in every way a worthy successor to <i>Lonesome Dove</i>.--<i>Chicago Tribune</i><br><br>Gorgeous . . . violent, funny, achingly sad, filled with heroism and regret . . . If you can put <i>Streets of Laredo</i> down, I'll eat my ten-gallon hat.--<i>Cosmopolitan</i><br><br>Larry McMurtry is a wonderful storyteller, and with . . . <i>Streets of Laredo</i>. . . he has written a novel that is even better than the original--and that was one hell of a tale.--<i>Boston Globe</i><br><br>Larry McMurtry remains a genius at dialogue. The scene where the seven whores start reminiscing about the first men in their lives in wonderful.--<i>New York Times Book Review</i><br><br>One of McMurtry's most powerful and moving achievements.--<i>Los Angeles Times</i><br><br>"<i>Streets of Laredo</i> is here and all that needs to be said is this: Hallelujah. . . . McMurtry has taken us back to the glory days of Lonesome Dove. . . ."--<i>Los Angeles Daily News</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Larry McMurtry (1936-2021) was the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>Lonesome Dove</i>, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lived in Archer City, Texas.
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