Folly and Glory A Novel

by McMurtry, Larry

• ISBN13: 9780743262729
• ISBN10: 0743262727
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-08
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

As this final volume ofThe Berrybender Narrativesopens, Tasmin and her family are under irksome, though comfortable, arrest in Mexican Santa Fe. Her father, the eccentric Lord Berrybender, is planning to head for Texas with his whole family and his retainers. Tasmin, who would once have followed her husband, Jim Snow, anywhere, is no longer even sure she likes him, or knows where to go to next.In the meantime, Jim Snow, accompanied by Kit Carson, journeys to New Orleans, where he meets up with a muscular black giant named Juppy in whose company they make their way back to Santa Fe. But even they are unable to prevent the Mexicans from carrying the Berrybender family on a long and terrible journey across the desert to Vera Cruz.Starving, dying of thirst, and in constant, bloody battle with slavers pursuing them, the Berrybenders finally make their way to civilization, where Jim Snow has to choose between Tasmin and the great American plains, on which he has lived all his life in freedom, and where, after all her adventures, Tasmin must finally decide where her future lies.With a cast of characters that includes almost every major real-life figure of the West,Folly and Gloryis a novel that represents the culmination of a great and unique four-volume saga of the early days of the West; it is one of Larry McMurtry's finest achievements.

Author Biography

Larry McMurtry, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (Lonesome Dove), among other awards, is the author of twenty-seven novels, two collections of essays, three memoirs, two biographies, and more than thirty screenplays, and is the editor of an anthology of modern Western fiction.

Table of Contents

Characters	xiii
1. In the Nursery	1	(3)
2. Dark and Difficult Days	4	(6)
3. A Wife's Impatience	10	(6)
4. The Time of Grief	16	(4)
5. A Long Wait for Guns	20	(4)
6. Night and the River	24	(5)
7. Petal's Program	29	(4)
8. The Ear Taker's Mistake	33	(4)
9. The Torture Man	37	(5)
10. Amboise Forgives	42	(1)
11. Doña Margareta's Amusements	43	(3)
12. The Governor's Shock	46	(4)
13. Agile Behavior in a Buggy	50	(3)
14. A Peppery Dish	53	(4)
15. Doña Eleanora's Dilemma	57	(3)
16. A Governor's Confession	60	(4)
17. Petal Declines to Share	64	(3)
18. Jim Comes to Visit	67	(3)
19. A Locked Door Angers Petal	70	(3)
20. A Trip to New Orleans	73	(6)
21. The Brown Giant	79	(3)
22. Julietta and the Blacksmith	82	(3)
23. Little Onion's Dejection	85	(3)
24. Kit's Surprise	88	(2)
25. The Berrybenders Expelled	90	(2)
26. Major Leon Falls in Love	92	(4)
27. The Old Woman with the Goose	96	(3)
28. Old Bill Williams	99	(6)
29. A Great Storm	105	(3)
30. Mopsy Is Gone	108	(3)
31. Julietta's Mistake	111	(3)
32. High Shoulders Wants to Hurry	114	(2)
33. A Very Small Band	116	(3)
34. Tasmin Tries to Explain Love	119	(4)
35. Major Leon's Sorrow	123	(3)
36. A Plague Is on the River	126	(3)
37. Father Geoffrin Slapped	129	(3)
38. Vicky Forgets Her. Cello	132	(3)
39. The Sin Killer in Doubt	135	(3)
40. The Likeness Maker's Return	138	(3)
41. Old Na-a-me Is Bitter	141	(4)
42. Willy and Kit Seek a River	145	(3)
43. The Yellow Buffalo	148	(4)
44. Wild Turkeys	152	(3)
45. Little Onion's Grief	155	(4)
46. Petey Follows the Quail	159	(3)
47. Club and Rope	162	(3)
48. A Great Reunion Soured	165	(6)
49. Tasmin's Despair	171	(3)
50. Jim Finds a Cave	174	(4)
51. Tasmin and George	178	(3)
52. Draga Hears the Sin Killer	181	(5)
53. Jim Reflects on a Scripture	186	(2)
54. Malgres Offers a Warning	188	(2)
55. Tay-ha Forgets His Club	190	(3)
56. The Sin Killer Comes	193	(5)
57. The Hardest Days	198	(3)
58. The Berrybenders Attend a Ball	201	(6)
59. Jim and Rosa	207	(3)
60. In the Alamo	210	(3)
61. Tasmin Is Unpatriotic	213	(3)
62. Vicky Mourns Her Husband	216	(2)
63. Tasmin and Rosa	218	(4)
64. Tasmin's Regret	222	(3)
65. Some Depart for England	225	(3)
66. Tensions in Saint Louis	228	(2)
67. On a Green Hill	230	(2)
68. A Daughter of Privilege	232