Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry • 1985
Devastation Rating
loss friendship literary fiction historical grief
Our Take
A cattle drive from Texas to Montana and the slow destruction of everything it touches. McMurtry writes friendship and death with equal weight, and Call and McCrae are two of the most complete characters in American fiction. The novel gives you everything and then takes it back, which is what the West always did.
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