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Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN-100743250788
ISBN-139780743250788
eBay Product ID (ePID)57572285
Product Key Features
Book TitleTelegraph Days
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2006
TopicGeneral, Westerns, Historical
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorLarry McMurtry
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height9.4 in
Item Weight17.2 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-057459
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisNot since the publication of his own beloved classic Lonesome Dove has there been a novel like this one -- another big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the West from Larry McMurtry. Telegraph Days is at once a major work of literature and a completely absorbing read, not just great fiction, but fiction on a great scale, encompassing many years, many characters, real and fictional, and the whole vast landscape of place, time, life, and heart, which has served for more than one hundred thirty years as the background for "the Western" in fiction and on the screen. Nobody writes, or has ever written, better about the West than Larry McMurtry, and nobody has caught better in words its myths, its often brutal reality, its overwhelming size, and the way it captured both the imagination and the hopes of those who settled there, only, as was so often the case, to dash those hopes. Told in the voice of Nellie Courtright, a spunky, courageous, attractive young woman whose story this is in part, Telegraph Days is the big novel of the Western gunfighters that people have been hoping for years Larry McMurtry would write. When Nellie and her brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their father's suicide on his new and unprosperous ranch, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca, where Jackson manages to secure a job as a sheriff's deputy, while Nellie, ever resourceful, becomes the town's telegrapher. Together, they inadvertently put Rita Blanca on the map when young Jackson succeeds in shooting down all six of the ferocious Yazee brothers in a gunfight that brings him lifelong fame but which he can never repeat because his success came purely out of luck. Propelled by her own energy and commonsense approach to life, Nellie meets and almost conquers the heart of Buffalo Bill, the man she will love most in her long life, and goes on to meet, and witness the exploits of, Billy the Kid, the Earp brothers, and Doc Holliday. She even gets a ringside seat at the Battle at the O.K. Corral, the most famous gunfight in Western history, and eventually lives long enough to see the West and its gunfighters turned into movies. Full of life, love, shootings, real Western heroes and villains, Telegraph Days is Larry McMurtry at his epic best, in his most ambitious Western novel since Lonesome Dove., Returning to the big Western themes that have made him famous and beloved, McMurtry recreates the bygone days of the old gunfighters in a panoramic, sweeping novel told in the voice of Nellie Courtright, a courageous young woman.
LC Classification NumberPS3563.A319T38 2006
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- 20. Jul. 2021
The Old West Made New
Currently reading it -more than halfway through. This novel is a hoot! A very adult Western with sexual content. Also very humorous, then again it's McMurtry -the man wrote Lonesome Dove . Not a saga like Lonesome Dove it's s true page turner. Very good price & came quickly.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 12. Aug. 2020
Rambling
Boring all the way throughBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
