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Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

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Author Biography

Name: Larry McMurtry
Birth Date: 3 June 1936

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Biography of Larry (Jeff) McMurtry
16464 words, approx. 54.9 pages
[This entry was updated by Sarah English (Meredith College) from the entry by John Gerlach (Cleveland State University) in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series, pp. 137-150.] Larry McMurtry has been known to sport a sweatshirt bea...
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Biography of Larry (Jeff) McMurtry
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Larry McMurtry's work is marked by his imaginative connections with the American West. Drawn to place, McMurtry demonstrates in his work the mythic pattern of escape and return to his "blood's country," his homeland. After garnering initial celebrity by...
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Biography of Larry McMurtry
10717 words, approx. 35.7 pages
Although Larry McMurtry has moved beyond the status of a minor regional writer, he is still closely identified with Texas. His first six novels and a collection of essays (In a Narrow Grave, 1968) reflect life in his native state, and he has returned to...
 


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Lonesome Dove - Larry Mcmurtry - 1985 Summary
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Lonesome Dove - Larry Mcmurtry - 1985 Introduction Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove (1985) is a gritty novel of the American West. However, the author does not attempt to glamorize the events and people of his novel in the...
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Lonesome Dove Information
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Lonesome Dove, written by Larry McMurtry, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning western novel and the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series. The story focuses on the relationship of several retired Texas Rangers and their adventures driving a cattle...


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The Village Voice
Lonesome Dove
11/22/2006: 615 words, approx. 2 pages
Counter Culture By Robert Sietsema Lonesome Dove 29 West 21st Street 212-414-3139 Meat and Greet New Fort Worth joint raids the zoo for inspiration When I went to high school in Dallas, we felt superior to kids...
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National Review
Lonesome Dove.(Review)
01/25/1999: 625 words, approx. 2 pages
Mr. Hillen, an NR contributing editor, is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the author of Future Visions for U.S. Defense Policy (CSIS). Fortress America: The American Military and the Consequences of Peace, by William Greider...
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The New York Observer
Feel the Bruni Effect, New York!
5/8/2007: 557 words, approx. 2 pages
Texas-based restaurateur Tim Love once galloped proudly into Manhattan, celebrated as a James Beard Foundation “Rising Star.” That star took a considerable tumble last fall, following a brutal review of Mr. Love’s newly opened Lonesome Dove Western Bistro on West 21st Street. Call it the...
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1/12/2008: 780 words, approx. 3 pages
"We're safe," insists the restless 15-year-old lad."Don't you EVER think that, John!" his mother scolds. "No one is ever safe."A sense of constant foreboding permeates "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles." And good reason. Sarah knows the son she is raising will, in adulthood, be a...
 


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Literary Criticism
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Steve Fore
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In the following essay, Fore examines the ways in which the television adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel Lonesome Dove perpetuates racist and sexist stereotypes and endorses the myth of manifest destiny.
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Lonesome Dove: Natural Beauty and Remote Places
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