Comanche Moon/Larry McMurtry

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Comanche Moon by Larry Mc Murtry, 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 Mc Crae 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.

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Larry McMurtry

Romancier, eseist, librar și scenarist american (1936-2021)

Larry Jeff McMurtry a fost un romancier, eseist și scenarist american a cărui operă a fost predominant situată în Vărsatul Vechi sau Texasul contemporan. De-a lungul unei cariere care a acoperit șase decenii, el a scris peste treizeci de romane, numeroase eseuri și memorii, precum și aproximativ cincizeci de scenarii.