9781439195260
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Larry McMurtry
Format Paperback
Dimensions 8.14 (w) x 5.36 (h) x 1.83 (d)
Pages 864
Publisher Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Publication Date June 2010
ISBN 9781439195260
Book ISBN 10 1439195269
About Book
A love story and an epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Richly authentic, beautifully written, Lonesome Dove is a book to make readers laugh, weep, dream and remember. Now a blockbuster television event.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, 1986.

Reviews

From the Publisher

“If you read only one western novel in your life, read Lonesome Dove.”—USA Today

“Everything about Lonesome Dove feels true . . . These are real people, and they are still larger than life.”—Nicholas Lemann, The New York Times Book Review

Lonesome Dove is Larry McMurtry’s loftiest novel."—Los Angeles Times

"A marvelous novel . . . moves with joyous energy . . . amply imagined and crisply, lovingly written. I haven't enjoyed a book more this year . . . a joyous epic."—Newsweek

"The finest novel that McMurtry has yet accomplished . . . Lonesome Dove has all the action anyone could possibly imagine . . . [and] both in general and in details, the authority of exact authenticity . . . superb."—Chicago Tribune