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The Last Kind Words Saloon (Paperback, Main Market Ed.)
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The Last Kind Words Saloon (Paperback, Main Market Ed.)
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List price R271
Loot Price R238
Discovery Miles 2 380
You Save R33 (12%)
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This is Larry McMurtry's ballad in prose: his heartfelt tribute to
a bygone era of the American West. Larry McMurtry has done more
than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of
the American West. With The Last Kind Words Saloon, he returns to
the vivid and unsparing portrait of the nineteenth-century and
cowboy lifestyle made so memorable in his classic Lonesome Dove.
Evoking the greatest characters and legends of the Old Wild West,
McMurtry tells the story of the closing of the American frontier
through the travails of two of its most immortal figures: Wyatt
Earp and Doc Holliday. Long Grass, Texas. Once hailed as heroes for
their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge - more often
with a mean look than a pistol - the taciturn Wyatt now idles away
his time between bottles, while the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc
is more adept at poker than extracting teeth. With the buffalo
herds gone, the Comanche defeated, and vast swaths of the Great
Plains enclosed by cattle ranches, Wyatt and Doc live on, even as
the storied West that forged their myths disappears. McMurtry
traces the rich and varied friendship of the heroic pair 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. 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 the most original
American writers.
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