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Telegraph Days: A Novel - Larry McMurtry, 0743250788, hardcover

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Condition
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Artist
McMurtry, Larry
ISBN
0743250788
Book Title
Telegraph Days
Item Length
9.2in
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication Year
2006
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
9.4in
Author
Larry McMurtry
Genre
Fiction
Topic
General, Westerns, Historical
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
17.2 Oz
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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Not since the publication of his own beloved classic Lonesome Dove has there been a novel like this one -- another big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the West from Larry McMurtry. Telegraph Days is at once a major work of literature and a completely absorbing read, not just great fiction, but fiction on a great scale, encompassing many years, many characters, real and fictional, and the whole vast landscape of place, time, life, and heart, which has served for more than one hundred thirty years as the background for "the Western" in fiction and on the screen. Nobody writes, or has ever written, better about the West than Larry McMurtry, and nobody has caught better in words its myths, its often brutal reality, its overwhelming size, and the way it captured both the imagination and the hopes of those who settled there, only, as was so often the case, to dash those hopes. Told in the voice of Nellie Courtright, a spunky, courageous, attractive young woman whose story this is in part, Telegraph Days is the big novel of the Western gunfighters that people have been hoping for years Larry McMurtry would write. When Nellie and her brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their father's suicide on his new and unprosperous ranch, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca, where Jackson manages to secure a job as a sheriff's deputy, while Nellie, ever resourceful, becomes the town's telegrapher. Together, they inadvertently put Rita Blanca on the map when young Jackson succeeds in shooting down all six of the ferocious Yazee brothers in a gunfight that brings him lifelong fame but which he can never repeat because his success came purely out of luck. Propelled by her own energy and commonsense approach to life, Nellie meets and almost conquers the heart of Buffalo Bill, the man she will love most in her long life, and goes on to meet, and witness the exploits of, Billy the Kid, the Earp brothers, and Doc Holliday. She even gets a ringside seat at the Battle at the O.K. Corral, the most famous gunfight in Western history, and eventually lives long enough to see the West and its gunfighters turned into movies. Full of life, love, shootings, real Western heroes and villains, Telegraph Days is Larry McMurtry at his epic best, in his most ambitious Western novel since Lonesome Dove.

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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
0743250788
ISBN-13
9780743250788
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57572285

Product Key Features

Book Title
Telegraph Days
Author
Larry McMurtry
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Westerns, Historical
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
304 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
9.4in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
17.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3563.A319t38 2006
Copyright Date
2006
Lccn
2005-057459
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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  • The Old West Made New

    Currently reading it -more than halfway through. This novel is a hoot! A very adult Western with sexual content. Also very humorous, then again it's McMurtry -the man wrote Lonesome Dove . Not a saga like Lonesome Dove it's s true page turner. Very good price & came quickly.

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    Boring all the way through

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  • It's keeping Hubby entertained during his recuperation.

    I bought it for my husband who had heart surgery and will be laid up for awhile. He's half way through it now and can't seem to put it down! I'd say that's a great sign of a great product!

  • Telegraph Days by Larry McMurtry

    Larry McMurtry at his best. Great writer, love his books! Only thing wrong with it is it isn't long enough. So good I recommend it on my Brooklyn Real Estate website, klinerealestate.com Suzy Kline

  • Telegraph Days

    Larry McMurtry does it again in Telgraph Days a stunning and richly entertaining read. Anyone who enjoys a good western or just a good book of any kind would love this book.