Comanche Moon

by McMurtry, Larry

• ISBN13: 9780671020644
• ISBN10: 0671020641
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Pocket Books

Summary

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 Moonjoins 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 Moonis 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.

Author Biography

Larry McMurtry, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and many other awards, is the author of twenty-six novels, two collections of essays, three memoirs, and more than thirty screenplays, and is the editor of an anthology of modern Western fiction. His reputation as a critically acclaimed and bestselling author is unequaled.