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Larry McMurty Buffalo Girls
Simon & Schuster 1990 067168518x / 9780671685188 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Slight shelf wear on dust cover.
1.20 x 0.20 x 5.90; 351 pages; Larry McMurty is such a versatile writer. Buffalo Girls is a novel about Calamity Jane, the one woman who embodied the spirit of the American West. That McMurty can bring to life, great characters of the American past and make us laugh and weep and feel nostalgia as if their lives were our own is a tribute to his writing prowess.
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Larry McMurty Duane's Depressed
Simon & Schuster 1999 068485497x / 9780684854977 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Gently read.
1.30 x 9.0 x 6.90; 439 pages; The third of the Last Picture Show/ Texasville trilogy, Larry McMurty traces the characters of his earlier novels into the midldle age and twilight of their lives. Duane, surrounded by his wife and children feels ill at ease and depressed. Much to the dismay of his family and people who know him, Duane sets out to find himself, abandoning wife and children and finding other people with whom he spends time and passion. McMurty tells the story with humor and sadness and invariably touches us.
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Larry McMurty Sin Killer
Simon & Schuster 2002 0743233026 / 9780743233026 Hardcover Fine
The Berrybender Narratives #1; 0.90 x9.58 x 6.60; 300 pages; The first novel in the Berrybender Narratives series introduces us to the Berrybender family who leaves their aristocratic roots in England to see the American west. In the 1830's they travel along the Missouri River along with their entourage. In this trail, aristocratic Berrybender daughter, Tasmin, vicacious, beautiful, and determined meets the Sin Killer, silent, handsome Westerner who is frontiersman, part-time preacher and of a totally opposite background.
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Larry McMurty The Desert Rose
Orion Books 1985 0752834533 / 9780752834535 Paperback As New; Gently read, like new.
Trade PB; 0.94 x 7.56 x 5.04; 254 pages; This very entertaining novel tells the story of Harmony, a Las Vegas showgirl, with whom we immediately fall in love. She is La showgirl by night and raises peacocks by day. Harmony has to work through the difficulties of fewer dancing jobs and raising cynical daughter, Pepper. Of course, we are treated by Larry McMurty's prose and bittersweet plot.
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Larry McMurty The Streets of Laredo The Sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lonesome Dove
Simon & Schuster 1993 0671792814 / 9780671792817 Possible 1st edition Hardcover As New in New dust jacket; A few pages with hurts on edges.
9.50 x 1.50 x 6.50; 590 pages; This sequel to Lonesome Dove, is an epic adventure of Captain Call, now a bounty hunter, in pursuit of young Mexican bandit, Joey Garza. This western epic is also a novel of love and values. This pits older Call and the young Joey Garza. It is a tale of love's abiding power. Noble Mexican woman, Maria, Garza's mother braves, goes to bandit territory to save his son and Lorena, now married to Pea Eye Parker, member of Call's posey, journeys in the cold of winter to bring her husband back to their simple life.
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