A sweeping four-part epic of the American West that could only come
from the boundless skill and imagination of Pulitzer Prize- winning
author Larry McMurtry.
Over a career that spans fifty years, Larry McMurtry has been
celebrated as "one of America's great storytellers" ("The Wall
Street Journal") and a writer who "stands among our best not only
because of his uncanny ability to compress a cogent narrative arc
but also because his eye for the moving detail is infallible" ("Los
Angeles Times"). In "The Berrybender Narratives, "now published in
a single volume for the first time, the author of "Lonesome Dove
"delivers the unforgettable story of an idiosyncratic pioneer
family and a truly unique view of the American West, reminding us
again that his writing "has the power to clutch the heart and also
to exhilarate" ("The New Yorker").
In 1830, the Berrybender family--British, aristocratic, and
fiercely out of place--abandons their home in England to embark on
a journey through the American West just as the frontier is
beginning to open up. Accompanied by a large and varied collection
of retainers, Lord and Lady Berrybender intend to travel up the
Missouri and settle in Texas, hoping to broaden the perspectives of
their children, including Tasmin, a young woman of grit, beauty,
and cunning. But when Tasmin's fast-developing relationship with
Jim Snow, a frontiersman and ferocious Indian fighter, begins to
dictate the family's course, they move further into the expansive
and hostile wilderness and into the path of Indians, pioneers,
mountain men, and explorers. As Lord Berrybender's health falters,
and the rest of the family goes to pieces around him, Tasmin finds
herself taking command of their collective fate and is finally
forced to decide where her future lies.
Full of real and fascinating characters, famous shoot-outs,
adventure, humor, love, and loss, "The Berrybender Narratives "is
an epic of the American West during its period of transformation, a
landscape that nobody understands better than Larry McMurtry.
General
Imprint: |
Simon & Schuster
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2011 |
First published: |
November 2011 |
Authors: |
Larry McMurtry
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Dimensions: |
242 x 167 x 46mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
|
Pages: |
911 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4516-4772-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Westerns
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LSN: |
1-4516-4772-7 |
Barcode: |
9781451647723 |
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