Dead Man's Walk - (Lonesome Dove) by Larry McMurtry (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The "prequel" to "Comanche Moon, " depicting the adventures of Woodrow McCall and Gus McCrae as young men adrift in the Old West.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The first of Larry McCurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove tetralogy, showcasing McCurtry's talent for breathing new life into the vanished American West through two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call.</b> <p/>As young Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call (Gus and Call for short) 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Dead Man's Walk </i>is a very good read . . . [It] will keep you reading [and] make you miss meals. --<i>Seattle Times</i><br><br><i>Dead Man's Walk</i>. . . succeeds marvelously . . . resurrecting two brilliantly conceived characters and delivering a rousing tale of the Wild West.--Michael Berry, <i>San Francisco Chronicle <p/> </i><br><br>Gee-haw! Larry McMurtry is back in the yarn-slinging business--with a vengeance. . . . Readers will gobble up <i>Dead Man's Walk</i>--a wild and wooly read--from cover to cover.--<i>Denver Post</i><br><br>In <i>Dead Man's Walk</i>, McMurtry uses a simple, wry, immensely accessible storyteller's voice to ponder the same questions that Melville and Conrad did. This is a great book. . . . Larry McMurtry, at his best here, is one of the finest American novelists, ever. We are lucky he's around.--John Milius, <i>Los Angeles Times</i><br><br>McMurtry does great characters. Call and McCrae are real, lifelike, believable, and lovable. . . . McMurtry's stories are brimming with passion and page-turning excitement. . . It's good, good stuff.--<i>Kansas City Star</i><br><br>McMurtry remains a good storyteller, and he remains a master of dialogue, doing a sort of frontier version of Oscar Wilde.--<i>Washington Post Book World</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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