A worthy end to an important trilogy, one that captures vividly and movingly nearly half a century of life "McMurtry proves again that he is as clear-eyed a writer as anyone in the business. This is fine writing, and suggests once again that history and biography can best be restored by the creative imagination." "McMurtry evokes a period and a culture rather than one man. a sprawling, picaresque novel that, like the history of the West itself, leaves more than a few loose ends." can't seem to move their story beyond television mini-series In defter hands, a novel like 'Zeke and Ned' could have taken the measure of clashing cultures, but Mr. to make you wonder why the rest are no better ![]() Still you keep reading, because he has written novels good enough. McMurtry's career as a serious novelist is becoming checkered fast. Perhaps they should be called the Great Western." Ultimate limit the themes and leather-tough atmospherics on which novels and films of the Texas frontier depend. "McMurtry's two novels, freestanding and yet linked, should surely earn an award of some kind, for carrying forward to their What is a guy like Larry McMurtry doing on a thing like this?" Ossana, Floyd comes out flatter than a Depression pancake in the meanest Okie truck stop. In one way at least it is the full equal of 'Lonesome Dove.' Larry McMurtry remains a genius at dialogue." "'Streets of Laredo'" is by no means a complete failure. McMurtry's is sentimentality laced with comic irony, and it works very well. "The success of a book like this one depends on the tone the author manages to muster up. " past does comes alive in Larry McMurtry's 'Buffalo Girls,' a lovely, moving and very funny novel that is first and foremost a work of resurrection, a book that rescues an important Novelist is as complex as Hamlet, and as doomed." His cowboys are articulate, his petty criminals have grand potential, and in his latest book, 'Some Can Whistle,' even a rich McMurtry's prose stands up and kicks fence posts.
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