Dead Man's Walk - Brossura

McMurtry, Larry

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1447274644 ISBN 13: 9781447274643

Casa editrice: Pan Macmillan, 2015

Riassunto

These are the wild days when Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call - heroes of Lonesome Dove - first encounter the untamed frontier that will form their characters. Not yet twenty, Gus and Call enlist as Texas Rangers under the command of Caleb Cobb, a capricious outlaw determined to seize Santa Fe from the Mexicans. The two young men experience their first great adventure in the barren, empty landscape of the great plains, in which arbitrary violence is the only law - whether from nature, or from those whose territory they must cross in order to reach New Mexico. Danger, sacrifice and fear test Gus and Call to the limits of endurance, as they seek the strength and courage to survive against almost insurmountable odds in the West of early nineteenth-century America.

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McMurtry has crafted a tale of love, fear and sacrifice in the face of Wild West adversity. With his vibrant, dynamic landscapes and language that springs from the page, this book captures the heart until the last word (The Times)

A well told novel, undemonstrative in its depiction of violence, and it offers a fascinating lesson on the realities of life in the mythical Wild West (Sunday Times)

In Dead Man's Walk, McMurtry uses a simple, wry, immensely accessible storyteller's voice to ponder the same questions that Melville and Conrad did. This is a great book. . . . Larry McMurtry, at his best here, is one of the finest American novelists, ever (Los Angeles Times)

Succeeds marvellously . . . resurrecting two brilliantly conceived characters and delivering a rousing tale of the Wild West (San Francisco Chronicle)

Gee-haw! Larry McMurtry is back in the yarn-slinging business - with a vengeance. . . . Readers will gobble up Dead Man's Walk (Denver Post)

McMurtry spins some scary, bloodthirsty tall tales and peoples them with remarkably vivid characters (New York Daily News)

McMurtry remains a good storyteller, and he remains a master of dialogue, doing a sort of frontier version of Oscar Wilde (Washington Post Book World)

Dead Man's Walk is a very good read. . . . [It] will keep you reading [and] make you miss meals (Seattle Times)

McMurtry does great characters. Call and McCrae are real, lifelike, believable, and lovable. . . . McMurtry's stories are brimming with passion and page-turning excitement. . . . It's good, good stuff (Kansas City Star)

Descrizione del libro:

The first book in the Lonesome Dove quartet

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• Editore: Pan Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1447274644
• ISBN 13: 9781447274643
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 448