| Comanche Moon Contributor(s): McMurtry, Larry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0780783727 ISBN-13: 9780780783720 Publisher: Turtleback Books OUR PRICE: $18.53 Product Type: Prebound - Other Formats Published: June 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Westerns - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 980 |
| Series: Lonesome Dove |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 4.1" W x 6.8" (0.90 lbs) 803 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: Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry, a brilliant and haunting novel richly capable of standing on its own, completes the author's epic four-volume cycle of novels of the American West that began in 1985 with the Pulitzer Prize -- winning masterpiece, Lonesome Dove. We join Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow F. Call in their middle years, just beginning to deal with the perplexing tensions of adult life -- Gus and his great love, Clara Forsythe; Call and Maggie Tilton, the young whore who loves him -- when 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. Assisting the Rangers in their wild chase is the renowned Kickapoo tracker, Famous Shoes. Comanche Moon joins the twenty-year time line between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove, as we follow 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. |