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Larry McMurtry was the author of more than thirty novels and memoirs, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. He received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Brokeback Mountain. The cinematic treatment of Terms of Endearment swept the boards at the 1984 Academy Awards, winning Oscars in several categories, including Best Picture. McMurtry died in 2021 in Archer City, TX, at the age of 84.One of McMurtry's most powerful and moving achievements
Los Angeles Times
Gorgeous . . . violent, funny, achingly sad, filled with heroism and regret . . . If you can put <i>Streets of Laredo</i> down, I'll eat my ten-gallon hat
Cosmopolitan
Those who have been waiting . . . for an appropriate sequel to the memorable and Pulitzer-winning <i>Lonesome Dove</i> can take heart. <i>Streets of Laredo</i> continues that epic of the waning years of the Texas Rangers with all the narrative drive and elegiac passion of its forerunner
Publishers Weekly
McMurtry has written a sad, funny elegy not only for his characters' pasts, but for the waning of the American West
The New York Times
The final novel in Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove quartet, Streets of Laredo is an exhilarating and achingly poignant tale of heroism and friendship, set in the American West.
Captain Woodrow Call, Gus McCrae’s old partner, once a youthful Texas Ranger, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit. Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena – once Gus’s sweetheart.
Their long, perilous chase leads them across the last wild stretches of the West into a hellhole known as Crow Town and, finally, deep into the vast, relentless plains of the Texas frontier – all in search of gunman Joey Garza . . .
'Larry McMurtry, at his best here, is one of the finest American novelists, ever' – Los Angeles Times
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