Larry McMurtry
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Larry McMurtry
A love story, an adventure, an American epic, Lonesome Dove embraces all the West—legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settiers—in a novel that recreates the central American experience, the most enduring of our national myths.
Set in the late nineteenth century, Lonesome Dove is the story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana—and much more. It is a drive that represents for everybody involved not only a daring, even a foolhardy, adventure, but a part of the American Dream—the attempt to carve out of the last…
Terms of Endearment: A Novel
Larry McMurtry
One of Larry McMurtry’s most sensitive and compelling portrayals of human relationships, Terms of Endearment is a story of love, its occasional absence and the emotional tensions we generate in its maintenance.At the story’s center is a Aurora Greenway, a woman who makes the world revolve around her. Shrewd yet inwardly tender, spirited but vulnerable, she attracts a series of dedicated protectors.
But in the final analysis she learns about love not from a person but from an event—in this case loss, specifically the death of her daughter.
