Description: Here on offer is a very nice copy of Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Lonesome Dove, the 3rd installment chronologically in the Lonesome Dove series. This is a true 1st trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by Simon & Schuster in 1985. The original dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Brodart sleeve. ******************************************************************************************************************* "Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America. Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember." //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936 – March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, prominent book collector, bookseller and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. His novels included Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), which were adapted into films. Films adapted from McMurtry's works earned 34 Oscar nominations (13 wins). His 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries that earned 18 Emmy Award nominations (seven wins). The subsequent three novels in his Lonesome Dove series were adapted as three more miniseries, earning eight more Emmy nominations. McMurtry and cowriter Diana Ossana adapted the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain (2005), which earned eight Academy Award nominations with three wins, including McMurtry and Ossana for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2014, McMurtry received the National Humanities Medal." The above text was taken from, respectively, Simon & Schuster (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.[McMurtry, Larry. Lonesome Dove: A Novel. United Kingdom: Simon & Schuster, 2010.]
Price: 194.95 USD
Location: College Station, Texas
End Time: 2024-11-09T17:49:36.000Z
Shipping Cost: 10.06 USD
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: Larry McMurtry
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Topic: Westerns
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
