![]() ![]() McMurtry regularly throws convention aside in his storytelling he’s a realist not a sentimentalist, he creates female characters who are as fully formed (and interesting) as the men, and offers up scenes of beauty and brutality in nearly equal measure. Lonesome Dove has been described as an anti-western Western because it undercuts our mythology of cowboys and Indians. ![]() Many Dove fans mention Wallace Stevens’ description of a rare type of reading experience in which “the reader becomes the book” – that is, a state in which words and pages melt away and you and the story are one. Mention the novel to anyone and they will tell you they adore this book, even if they haven’t read it for nearly thirty years. McMurtry’s beloved novel seems to have had a resurgence during quarantine – perhaps folks are looking back on classics they hadn’t read, or were inspired (as I was) to learn more about Larry McMurtry after reading his obituaries last March. ![]()
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