The Last Kind Words Saloon
$32.01
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
18 August 2026
Summary
This is Larry McMurtry’s ballad in prose: his heartfelt tribute to a bygone era of the American West. In his final novel, he returns to the vivid and unsparing portrait of the nineteenth-century and cowboy lifestyle made so memorable in his classic Lonesome Dove.
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 Earp now idles away his time between bottles, while the den…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035097852 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035097850 |
| Author: | Larry McMurtry |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 18 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 132mm x 200mm |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Larry McMurtry possesses one of the most engaging, tempting-to-imitate voices in contemporary American fiction, a voice so smooth and mellow you can almost hear the ice clink against the glass as he talks * New York Times Book Review *
By turns droll, stark, wry, or raunchy, this peripatetic novel … will satisfy many readers who long for more from literary icon McMurtry * Library Journal *
In this ‘ballad in prose’ as McMurtry describes his latest book, he paints the familiar historical characters in unfamiliar ways … lovely * People *
A deftly narrated, often comically subversive work of fiction … If Lonesome Dove is a chronicle of the cattle-driving West that contains within its vast, broad ranges a small but heartrending intimate tragedy of paternal neglect, The Last Kind Words Saloon is a dark postmodernist comedy – Joyce Carol Oates * New York Review of Books *
Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry was the author of more than thirty novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. He also wrote memoirs and essays, and received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Brokeback Mountain.
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