Synopses & Reviews
In this "comically subversive work of fiction" (), Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Tracing their legendary friendship from the settlement of Long Grass, Texas, to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, finds Wyatt and Doc living out the last days of a cowboy lifestyle that is already passing into history. In his stark and peerless prose, McMurtry writes of the myths and men that live on even as the storied West that forged them disappears. Hailed by critics and embraced by readers, celebrates the genius of one of our most original American writers.
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"Larry McMurtry possesses one of the most engaging, tempting-to-imitate voices in contemporary American fiction, a voice so smooth and mellow you can almost hear the ice clink against the glass as he talks." Max Byrd
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"By turns droll, stark, wry, or raunchy, this peripatetic novel...will satisfy many readers who long for more from literary icon McMurtry." New York Times Book Review
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"As always, McMurtry's characters are plain-spoken but subtle and full of dry humor. . . . Moseying along with McMurtry is always worthwhile." Keddy Ann Outlaw Library Journal
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"A beautiful, dreamy, deeply melancholy book, connecting legend and disparate threads of history in a seamless pastiche of tall tales drawn against the context of their real circumstances." Boston Globe
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"In this 'ballad in prose,' as McMurtry describes his latest book, he paints the familiar historical characters in unfamiliar ways... lovely." Nathan Pensky The Onion
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"A deftly narrated, often comically subversive work of fiction... If is a chronicle of the cattle-driving West that contains within its vast, broad ranges a small but heartrending intimate tragedy of paternal neglect, is a dark postmodernist modernist comedy." Richard Eisenberg People
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"Those who enjoy McMurtry's rueful humor and understated tone of elegiac melancholy will devour the book in one setting." Joyce Carol Oates New York Review of Books
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"Such a comfortable Western that Sam Elliott might as well be narrating it directly into your ear. McMurtry intersperses comedy and romance...And once again, he's written some smart, tough women and a bunch of men who have no idea what to make of them." Laura Collins-Hughes
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"[] is never dull, and it's also very funny. As always, McMurtry's characters are plain-spoken but subtle and full of dry humor...Moseying along with McMurtry is always worthwhile." Nathan Pensky The Onion
Synopsis
In this "comically subversive work of fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books), Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Tracing their legendary friendship from the settlement of Long Grass, Texas, to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, The Last Kind Words Saloon finds Wyatt and Doc living out the last days of a cowboy lifestyle that is already passing into history. In his stark and peerless prose McMurtry writes of the myths and men that live on even as the storied West that forged them disappears. Hailed by critics and embraced by readers, The Last Kind Words Saloon celebrates the genius of one of our most original American writers.
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Bestseller marks the triumphant return of Larry McMurtry to the nineteenth-century West of his classic .
About the Author
Born and raised in Texas, Larry McMurtry is an award-winning novelist, essayist, Oscar-winning screenwriter, and avid book collector. His novels include The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, and Lonesome Dove. He lives in Archer City, Texas.