| Comanche Moon Contributor(s): McMurtry, Larry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0671020641 ISBN-13: 9780671020644 Publisher: Pocket Books OUR PRICE: $9.89 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: June 1998 Annotation: From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry comes the "New York Times" bestselling prequel to the "Lonesome Dove" story. Texas rangers August McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, now in their middle years, are just beginning to deal with the enigmas of the heart, while courageously trying to defend their territory and their way of life. Soon to be an ABC made-for-television movie. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Westerns - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 980 |
| Series: Lonesome Dove |
| Physical Information: 1.9" H x 4.2" W x 6.7" (1.00 lbs) 816 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 24953 Reading Level: 6.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 42.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The epic four-volume cycle that began with Larry McMurty's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Lonesome Dove, is completed with this brilliant and haunting novel--a capstone in a mighty tradition of storytelling. Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, now in their middle years, are just beginning to deal with the enigmas of the adult heart--Gus with his great love, Clara Forsythe; and Call with Maggie Tilton, the young whore who loves him. Two proud but very different men, they enlist with a Ranger troop in pursuit of Buffalo Hump, the great Comanche war chief; Kicking Wolf, the celebrated Comanche horse thief; and a deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for torture. Comanche Moon joins the twenty-year time line between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove, following beloved heroes Gus and Call and their comrades-in-arms--Deets, Jake Spoon, and Pea Eye Parker--in their bitter struggle to protect an advancing Western frontier against the defiant Comanches, courageously determined to defend their territory and their way of life. At once vividly imagined and unflinchingly realistic, Comanche Moon is a sweeping, heroic adventure full of tragedy, cruelty, courage, honor and betrayal, and the culmination of Larry McMurty's peerless vision of the American West. |
Contributor Bio(s): McMurtry, Larry: - Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lives in Archer City, Texas. |