Book Review: Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1) by Larry McMurtry
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Series: Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove Book #1 of 4)
Genre: Historical Fiction, Western
Pages: 946 pages (Ebook Edition)
Word Count: 379,000 Words
Published: 1985 by Simon & Schuster
I thought I was done with reading a Western-setting novel. Lonesome Dove proved me wrong by becoming the best Western story I’ve ever read.
“I’m glad I’ve been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can’t avoid it, you’ve got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it’s bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day–that way they ain’t usually much worse than a dry shave.”