Larry mcmurtry's streets of laredo5/20/2023 They lead beautifully into Lonesome Dove: a novel which is, at its heart, about memory and old age and the passage of time. They take place when Call and Gus are younger men, when the Texas frontier was truly wild, when Comanche still ruled the western plains. This is doubly true of Streets of Laredo, the fourth and final installment of the Lonesome Dove series: not just because it’s a low-key sequel to the greatest Western novel of all time – an examination of Woodrow Call’s twilight years after the death of his life partner – but also because of what happens to Call himself at the end of the novel.Īfter Lonesome Dove I went and read Dead Man’s Walk and Comanche Moon, which are chronologically the first two books in the series. But Larry McMurtry shows us the course of people’s lives, and the consequences of life’s many sorrows, beyond the expected narrative constraint. Obviously that’s true of all books in a sense: the reader is compelled to keep turning the pages to find out what happens. Larry McMurtry’s books are about what happens next. (Critical spoiler warning for Dead Man’s Walk, Comanche Moon and Lonesome Dove) Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry (1993) 589 p.
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