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Lonesome Dove: A Novel

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The Pulitzer Prize­–winning American classic of the American West that follows two aging Texas Rangers embarking on one last adventure. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America. Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; Anniversary,Updated edition (June 15, 2010)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 864 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1439195269


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 60


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.6 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 2 x 8 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #2,114 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #11 in Native American Literature (Books) #30 in Westerns (Books) #98 in Classic Literature & Fiction


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    • Easy to Read, Impossible to Forget
Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove starts with pigs and ends with sorrow. In between lies one of the best books I’ve ever read. The novel is set in the American West after the Civil War. The protagonists, Woodrow Call and Augustus “Gus” McCrae, are former Texas Rangers who retired a decade ago and spent the intervening years in the little Texas town of Lonesome Dove. Nominally, they run the Hat Creek Cattle Company with a few of their old comrades (and two blue pigs, who kick off the book by eating a snake). But mostly they’re just whiling away the hours. This part of the story is easy, pleasurable reading. McMurtry writes in third-person omniscient, meandering from one character to the next and bringing them to life quickly and completely. Call is a workaholic prone to brooding. (“Give Call a grievance,” we hear early on, “however silly, and he would save it like money.”) Gus is voluble and lazy. Pea Eye is simple but solid. Deets is as reliable as he is quirky (he makes his pants out of quilts). Newt is young and desperate to please. Even minor characters get distinctive traits. Lippy “was so named because his lower lip was about the size of the flap on a saddlebag. He could tuck enough snuff under it to last a normal person at least a month; in general the lip lived a life of its own, there toward the bottom of his face. Even when he was just sitting quietly, studying his cards, the lip waved and wiggled as if it had a breeze blowing across it.” And Joe “had a habit of staring straight ahead. Though Call assumed he had a neck joint like other men, he had never seen him use it.” For a while, it seems like the Hat Creek crew might putter around Lonesome Dove forever. Then Jake, another ex-ranger—on the run from the law, as it happens—rides into town and mentions that he’s been to Montana and seen vast tracts of good, unsettled land there. This lights a fire under Call. He spurs the boys into motion, leading them on cattle raids across the Mexican border and hiring extra hands to help drive the animals north. So begins a great, three-thousand-mile trek from some of the lowest latitudes of the country to the highest. Things get hairy almost immediately. Death comes fast on the drive, and the dangers are too varied to guard against: snake-plagued river crossings, lightning storms on the open plains, searing droughts, and worse. Likable characters are abused and killed. Some of your favorites won’t make it. Prepare to be heartbroken. Yet there’s no grand goal here. Call and Gus aren’t trying to open up the American West—they already served their time protecting settlers along the shifting frontier. Montana is a vague destination, not a mission; Call essentially leaves Lonesome Dove on a whim. Gus goes along for lack of anything better to do, but not eagerly. “Here you’ve brought these cattle all this way,” he complains to his partner around the halfway mark, “with all this inconvenience to me and everybody else, and you don’t have no reason in this world to be doing it.” McMurtry has plenty of reasons for the drive, though. In his preface to the 25th-anniversary edition of Lonesome Dove, he argues that “the central theme of the novel is not the stocking of Montana but unacknowledged paternity,” namely Newt’s. His mother is long dead, and his father might be one of the Rangers. But that wasn’t the thread that stood out most to me. The book is filled with restless souls regretting all sorts of errors. Gus wishes he’d married his sweetheart when he had the chance. “I expect it was the major mistake of my life, letting her slip by,” he tells Call. For his part, the quieter man laments getting involved with women at all. Jake can’t believe he’s committed hanging crimes. July Johnson, the Kansas sheriff pursuing Jake, hates himself for leaving three of his charges to face a murderer. And so on. Aging is the through-line here—aging and change. Gus and Call are past their primes. They were legendary Rangers once, but now they’re fading into irrelevancy. The younger generation doesn’t hold them in the same esteem. “I guess they forgot us, like they forgot the Alamo,” August observes after the owner of a bar tries to kick him out for demanding respectful treatment. “Why wouldn’t they?” Call answers. “We ain’t been around.” The West is moving on too. The buffalo are nearly done, pushed to the brink of extinction by wasteful hunting. Gus rides past several slaughter sites where it looks like “a whole herd had been wiped out, for a road of bones stretched far across the plain.” The Native Americans aren’t in much better shape—despite their fearsome reputation, their numbers have dwindled in tandem with the buffalos’. “With those millions of animals gone,” Gus reflects, “and the Indians mostly gone in their wake, the great plains were truly empty, unpeopled and ungrazed. Soon the whites would come, of course, but what he was seeing was a moment between, not the plains as they had been, or as they would be, but a moment of true emptiness, with thousands of miles of grass resting unused, occupied only by remnants—of the buffalo, the Indians, the hunters.” This is all tragic, but it’s beautifully done. A couple things bothered me, however. That 25th-anniversary preface contains what feel like major spoilers. They aren’t, but I’d still skip this section until you’re done with the story proper. (Unless you want to start the book as grumpy as I did.) More significantly, while Deets shines as the only African American in the Hat Creek outfit (“He’s the best man we got,” Call says late in the drive; “Best man we’ve ever had,” Augustus agrees), the one Native American that gets extended time on the page is a vicious monster. We meet some friendlier indigenous people in passing, but I kept waiting for a real counterweight: a kind Comanche, or a decent Sioux. It never happens. (To be fair, McMurtry does have Gus take a few stabs at articulating why the Native Americans aren’t always hospitable. “We won more than our share with the natives,” he remarks near the end of the novel. They didn’t invite us here, you know. We got no call to be vengeful.” And earlier, he puzzles Call by saying, “I think we spent our best years fighting on the wrong side.” I don’t think this is enough, but it’s something.) Other than that … it’s hard to complain. Lonesome Dove doesn’t close with a climactic shootout like you might find in other westerns. But it doesn’t need to. The journey—Gus and Call’s last shot at big, unnecessary adventure—is the point. And it’s a masterpiece. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2020 by Nick Wisseman (author)
    • Great
Really nice big book. Arrived super fast. My only complaint is that the packaging doesn’t really protect the book so it was a little messed up right on the corner. Not a big deal but it should probably come in a box instead of a bag.
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2024 by M
    • More than a great read. Great experience!
Wonderfully written prose! You feel like you are there. Gives an incredible sense of what living through the Wild West was all about. “Lonesome” in the title represents marital, familial and friendship relationships; apropos for any generation. A spectacular read!
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2024 by M. White
    • The Lonesome Dove Saga
Larry McMurtry has layed out for countless readers a sweeping historical novel of gigantic proportion! He has provided readers with insights into the powerful and complex sweep of struggle and emotion common to the age and areas!
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2024 by once upon a time.
    • Long as a Texas cattle drive
Yes, it’s an American classic; yes, it made a great tv series. But at almost 1000 pages, it’s as long and long- winded as a Texas cattle drive. It’s repetitive and full of pages and pages of useless commentary and you could skip hundreds of pages ( as I did) and still come to the same place. After so many years of being praised, this review is probably overly critical. But, it needed a good editor and a better ending. Read it for its place in Western literature and then donate it to your local Little Library. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2024 by Randy Ross
    • Read it!
There were times when I wanted to stop reading this book. I'm so glad I kept going. It is a love story and a story of loss. I just finished the book and I'm speechless. Books don't typically move me or leave me without words.
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2024 by Desertrat
    • Hard to put down
This is an 800+ page book, but doesn’t feel like it’s that long. The story (and many side stories) are captivating, making the book hard to put down. It’s an easy read of a rather complicated story. I’m now looking forward to reading the sequel.
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2023 by Gregg Wilson
    • How did it take me so long to find this book?
Maybe the best book I've ever read. I loved the characters in this story and often saw myself in them. Gus made me laugh out loud. At times I felt like I was on the frontier in the 1870's. What a story. I'm just sad I finished this book.
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2023 by K. Burke

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