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The Last Kind Words Saloon: A Novel - Hardcover By McMurtry, Larry - GOOD
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- ISBN
- 9780871407863
- Book Title
- Last Kind Words Saloon
- Publisher
- Liveright Publishing Corporation
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Westerns, Biographical, Historical
- Item Weight
- 16.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Opening in the settlement of Long Grass, Texas--not quite in Kansas, and nearly New Mexico--we encounter the taciturn Wyatt, whiling away his time in between bottles, and the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc, more adept at poker than extracting teeth. Now hailed as heroes for their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge--more often with a mean look than a pistol--Wyatt and Doc are living out the last days of a way of life that is passing into history, two men never more aware of the growing distance between their lives and their legends. Along with Wyatt's wife, Jessie, who runs the titular saloon, we meet Lord Ernle, an English baron; the exotic courtesan San Saba, "the most beautiful whore on the plains"; Charlie Goodnight, the Texas Ranger turned cattle driver last seen in McMurtry's Comanche Moon , and Nellie Courtright, the witty and irrepressible heroine of Telegraph Days . McMurtry traces the rich and varied friendship of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday from the town of Long Grass to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, then to Mobetie, Texas, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, culminating with the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral, rendered here in McMurtry's stark and peerless prose. With the buffalo herds gone, the Comanche defeated, and vast swaths of the Great Plains being enclosed by cattle ranches, Wyatt and Doc live on, even as the storied West that forged their myths disappears. As harsh and beautiful, and as brutal and captivating as the open range it depicts, The Last Kind Words Saloon celebrates the genius of one of our most original American writers.
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Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0871407868
ISBN-13
9780871407863
eBay Product ID (ePID)
170109205
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Book Title
Last Kind Words Saloon
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Literary, Westerns, Biographical, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in
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Dewey Edition
23
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In this 'ballad in prose,' as McMurtry describes his latest book, he paints the familiar historical characters in unfamiliar ways... lovely., A deftly narrated, often comically subversive work of fiction... If Lonesome Dove is a chronicle of the cattle-driving West that contains within its vast, broad ranges a small but heartrending intimate tragedy of paternal neglect, The Last Kind Words Saloon is a dark postmodernist modernist comedy., [The Last Kind Words Saloon] is never dull, and it's also very funny. As always, McMurtry's characters are plain-spoken but subtle and full of dry humor... Moseying along with McMurtry is always worthwhile., [A] Wildly Worthy Addition to the Best Art Books of 2014... 33 Artists in 3 Acts Is a Superb Read..., The Last Kind Words Saloon is a beautiful, dreamy, deeply melancholy book, connecting legend and disparate threads of history in a seamless pastiche of tall tales drawn against the context of their real circumstances., Larry McMurtry possesses one of the most engaging, tempting-to-imitate voices in contemporary American fiction, a voice so smooth and mellow you can almost hear the ice clink against the glass as he talks., Those who enjoy McMurtry's rueful humor and understated tone of elegiac melancholy will devour the book in one setting., By turns droll, stark, wry, or raunchy, this peripatetic novel...will satisfy many readers who long for more from literary icon McMurtry.
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2014-002279
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Trade
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Lc Classification Number
Ps3563.A319l367 2014
Copyright Date
2014
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