Subscribe to our newsletter
Follow @panmacmillanaus

The Last Kind Words Saloon
McMurtry, Larry

RRP
A$32.99

The Last Kind Words Saloon
enlarge image save image print page share this

The triumphant return of Larry McMurtry with this ballad in prose: his heartfelt tribute to a bygone era of the American West.

Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West. With The Last Kind Words Saloon, he returns to the vivid and unsparing portrait of the nineteenth-century and cowboy lifestyle made so memorable in his classic Lonesome Dove. Evoking the greatest characters and legends of the Old Wild West, McMurtry tells the story of the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.

Long Grass, Texas. Once hailed as heroes for their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge - more often with a mean look than a pistol - the taciturn Wyatt now idles away his time between bottles, while the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc is more adept at poker than extracting teeth. With the buffalo herds gone, the Comanche defeated, and vast swaths of the Great Plains enclosed by cattle ranches, Wyatt and Doc live on, even as the storied West that forged their myths disappears.

McMurtry traces the rich and varied friendship of the heroic pair 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.

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 the most original American writers.

Author Information

Larry McMurtry is the author of more than thirty novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. He has also written memoirs and essays, and received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Brokeback Mountain. He lives in Archer City, Texas.

Not available to purchase Buy Ebook

ISBN:
9781447274568

Binding:
Hardback

Pub. Date:
01/03/2015

Category:
Westerns

Imprint:
Picador

Pages:
256 page/s

Stock:
To order

Price:
$32.99 AUD

All titles by McMurtry, Larry

All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers

All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers
McMurtry, Larry
P/B, A$19.99, NYP

Comanche Moon: Lonesome Dove 2

Comanche Moon: Lonesome Dove 2
McMurtry, Larry
P/B, A$19.99, Indent

Dead Man's Walk: Lonesome Dove 1

Dead Man's Walk: Lonesome Dove 1
McMurtry, Larry
P/B, A$19.99, Indent

Lonesome Dove: Lonesome Dove 3

Lonesome Dove: Lonesome Dove 3
McMurtry, Larry
P/B, A$22.99, Indent

Streets of Laredo: Lonesome Dove 4

Streets of Laredo: Lonesome Dove 4
McMurtry, Larry
P/B, A$19.99, Indent

Terms of Endearment

Terms of Endearment
McMurtry, Larry
P/B, A$19.99, NYP

The Desert Rose

The Desert Rose
McMurtry, Larry
P/B, A$19.99, NYP

The Last Kind Words Saloon

The Last Kind Words Saloon
McMurtry, Larry
P/B, A$19.99, NYP

The Last Kind Words Saloon

The Last Kind Words Saloon
McMurtry, Larry
P/B, A$29.99, Available

The Last Kind Words Saloon

The Last Kind Words Saloon
McMurtry, Larry
H/B, A$32.99, Indent