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S'està carregant… Lonesome Dovede Larry McMurtry
  
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Where has this book been all my life? Oh, it's been sitting on my shelf for about 20 years. Why the long wait? 964 pages! This is the story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. One is able to find everybody in this story you would expect from a 19th century western: Texas rangers, cowboys, Native Americans, crooks, whores (author's word--not mine!;), and bandits. This is also a great love story. A love of friends and a love of a lifetime demonstrated in a selfless manner. It is worthy of the Pulitzer Prize. This is book 1/4 in this tetralogy; although not the first chronologically. (  ) Tess_W | Sep 2, 2023 |  One big, fat book but a good and easy read. I read this book years ago, sometime after the movie came out. I really enjoyed it, but I enjoyed the movie better...the reason for the 4 star instead of 5. And yes, I was in love with Robert Duvall AND Tommy Lee Jones... (  ) MissysBookshelf | Aug 27, 2023 | I read this quite a while ago, just after the mini-series was televised. My recollection is that it was just as intense, gripping, and enjoyable as the show. ( ) zot79 | Aug 20, 2023 | Took me a while to get through, like a long cross country ride. I was along for the journey, content on getting there when I got there. It was a beautiful journey, and an instant favorite of mine. Throughout the journey I kept coming back to all the characters we met along the way, how their lives were so intensely changed by the chance encounters. Every single one of them felt all too real, as if I was there riding alongside the Hat Creek Cattle Company. ( ) CasualShino | Jun 2, 2023 | I read this book in 1998 and only came by it because I was scraping the bottom of the barrel on books available to me for reading and this was on the shelf. I was living abroad and there wasn't a proper library nearby, I only had access to books that were donated by other people. This is a really good "read it before you die" kind of book. It's a western and it is a kind of fantasy in the way there are multiple storylines taking place in sometimes multiple locations and with different points of view, but all end up together in the end. However, it takes place in the post-civil war pre-American Industrial Revolution periods. That's pretty much all I remember, except bits and pieces here and there. ( ) Library_Breeder | Apr 28, 2023 |
 All of Mr. McMurtry's antimythic groundwork -his refusal to glorify the West - works to reinforce the strength of the traditionally mythic parts of ''Lonesome Dove,'' by making it far more credible than the old familiar horse operas. These are real people, and they are still larger than life. The aspects of cowboying that we have found stirring for so long are, inevitably, the aspects that are stirring when given full-dress treatment by a first-rate novelist. Toward the end, through a complicated series of plot twists, Mr. McMurtry tries to show how pathetically inadequate the frontier ethos is when confronted with any facet of life but the frontier; but by that time the reader's emotional response is it does not matter - these men drove cattle to Montana! Pertany a aquestes sèriesLonesome Dove (1) Contingut aContéTé l'adaptacióTé una guia d'estudi per a estudiantsPremisDistincionsLlistes notables
Chronicles a cattle drive in the nineteenth century from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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 Google Books — S'està carregant…GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana: (4.55)
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MARCH GROUP READ - Lonesome Dove
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