Book Review

Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 067168390X

Augustus MacCrae and Woodrow Call are characters you may
be familiar with. They’ve been portrayed on television by several
different actors in a series of made-for-TV specials. But to really
know this pair of just-about-over-the-hill retired Texas rangers, you
must read McMurtry’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel.
This may seem a daunting task (the book is over 800 pages,) but
the author’s skill at yarn-spinning will sweep you along as easily
as a dust kitten blowing across the plains.
As you accompany them on their epic cattle drive to Montana,
you will experience history of the American West as it really was.
You will meet people—good and bad—who seem so real they will
remain in your memory longer than most of your teachers.
Not just a "guy’s" book . . . the female characters are every bit as
strong and as fascinating as the male.
This book is the joy of reading exemplified.

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