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With the buffalo herds gone, the Comanche defeated, and vast swaths of the Great Plains being enclosed by cattle ranches, Wyatt and Doc live on, even as the storied West that forged their myths disappears.

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Opening in the settlement of Long Grass, Texas--not quite in Kansas, and nearly New Mexico--we encounter the taciturn Wyatt, whiling away his time in between bottles, and the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc, more adept at poker than extracting teeth. Now hailed as heroes for their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge--more often with a mean look than a pistol--Wyatt and Doc are living out the last days of a way of life that is passing into history, two men never more aware of the growing distance between their lives and their legends. Along with Wyatt's wife, Jessie, who runs the titular saloon, we meet Lord Ernle, an English baron; the exotic courtesan San Saba, "the most beautiful whore on the plains"; Charlie Goodnight, the Texas Ranger turned cattle driver last seen in McMurtry's Comanche Moon , and Nellie Courtright, the witty and irrepressible heroine of Telegraph Days . McMurtry traces the rich and varied friendship of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday from the town of Long Grass to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, then to Mobetie, Texas, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, culminating with the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral, rendered here in McMurtry's stark and peerless prose. With the buffalo herds gone, the Comanche defeated, and vast swaths of the Great Plains being enclosed by cattle ranches, Wyatt and Doc live on, even as the storied West that forged their myths disappears. As harsh and beautiful, and as brutal and captivating as the open range it depicts, The Last Kind Words Saloon celebrates the genius of one of our most original American writers.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0871407868
ISBN-13
9780871407863
eBay Product ID (ePID)
170109205

Product Key Features

Book Title
Last Kind Words Saloon
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Literary, Westerns, Biographical, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Author
Larry McMurtry
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in

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Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
In this 'ballad in prose,' as McMurtry describes his latest book, he paints the familiar historical characters in unfamiliar ways... lovely., A deftly narrated, often comically subversive work of fiction... If Lonesome Dove is a chronicle of the cattle-driving West that contains within its vast, broad ranges a small but heartrending intimate tragedy of paternal neglect, The Last Kind Words Saloon is a dark postmodernist modernist comedy., [The Last Kind Words Saloon] 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., [A] Wildly Worthy Addition to the Best Art Books of 2014... 33 Artists in 3 Acts Is a Superb Read..., The Last Kind Words Saloon is 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., 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., Those who enjoy McMurtry's rueful humor and understated tone of elegiac melancholy will devour the book in one setting., By turns droll, stark, wry, or raunchy, this peripatetic novel...will satisfy many readers who long for more from literary icon McMurtry.
Lccn
2014-002279
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Lc Classification Number
Ps3563.A319l367 2014
Copyright Date
2014

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5 out of 5 stars
by pentaxmonster20 Jul, 2016
Précis of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday
Here is a quick read about events leading up to gunfight at the ok corral. It's a fascinating look at the real men of legend that we've heard all our lives. You get a quick look at cowboys, Indians, and private lives of real heroes .. A great read for men..not so much for women...
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3 out of 5 stars
by northwoodspond22 Aug, 2018
Not impressee
I have read his masterpieces Lonesome Dove, Deadmans Walk, Streets of Loredo, and Comanche Moon. This book seemed to have no real plot and rambled aimlessly. It’s a quick read if you want something easy.
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by pecr_940020 Jul, 2021
McMurtry's West
Haven't read this novel but look forward to doing so. McMurtry is a wicked good Western writer-simply the best! Very good price came quickly.
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5 out of 5 stars
by mendy71515 May, 2020
Large print makes it easy to read.
Great author!
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5 out of 5 stars
by 4935douglas20 Apr, 2016
good novella
McMurtry's western tale of the good, the bad & the ugly ~
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good novella

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