A Novel
by Larry McMurtry
Recommended by 3 notable people, including Brian Koppelman and Russell Roberts
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A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, 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 heroe...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Historical Fiction, Most Recommended Books, and Fiction.
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“McCarthy's novel lands as a relentless, haunted frontier epic where ornate, biblical cadence meets steady, shocking cruelty. Reading moves between lyric, often opaque sentences and scenes of unflinching violence rooted in 1850s Texas–Mexico border history. It’s most useful as a text that strips the West’s romance, leaving readers to face myth and atrocity without neat answers. Main limitation: the prose is dense and elliptical, so narrative threads can feel diffuse and readers seeking clear moral anchors or tidy plot arcs will be frustrated.”
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