Comanche Moon
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Larry McMurtry
The epic four-volume cycle that began with Larry McMurty's Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, Lonesome Dove, is completed with this brilliant and haunting novel—a capstone in a mighty tradition of storytelling.Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, now in their middle years, are just beginning to deal with the enigmas of the adult heart—Gus with his great love, Clara Forsythe; and Call with Maggie Tilton, the young whore who loves him. Two proud but very different men, they enlist with a Ranger troop in pursuit of Buffalo Hump, the great Comanche war chief; Kicking Wolf, the celebrated Comanche horse thief; and a deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for torture. Comanche Moon joins the twenty-year time line between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove, following beloved heroes Gus and Call and their comrades-in-arms—Deets, Jake Spoon, and Pea Eye Parker—in their bitter struggle to protect an advancing Western frontier against the defiant Comanches, courageously determined to defend their territory and their way of life. At once vividly imagined and unflinchingly realistic, Comanche Moon is a sweeping, heroic adventure full of tragedy, cruelty, courage, honor and betrayal, and the culmination of Larry McMurty's peerless vision of the American West.
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Author
Larry McMurtry
Pages
720
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2010-06-01
ISBN
1451606540 9781451606546
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"Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
There was a lot about this I loved! While Texas in this didn't feel like the massive presence I came to know (almost a character in it's own right) like Mexico did in the first book (Dead Man's Walk) I fell in love with one mans education in a crowd of ignorant men. Captain Scull, and his quest for the next thing and his tenacity to survive for a big chunk of the book was heart wenching, and horrifying but part three arrives and he almost fully disappears! You get two chapters on him and while it is a little closure it feels a little on the open interpretation side of things.
The town of Austin feels like it fleshes out really good (but through the whole thing seems much smaller than it out to be) after a disaster and you get your first experience at Lonesome Dove which after, is mentioned by our MC's for possibilities with their future moving forward.
The natives are mostly just smaller starving bands of resistance and they all see the writing on the wall, some chosing just to give up and join in the white settlements and others just outright choosing to die their own way. I kinda wish we had gotten a perspective of one of the bands that had decided to settle. We hear and learn so little of that time in history from that perspective.
The Civil War begins and ends during this with a good gap of the whole ordeal which I was hoping to follow someone through but it makes since that you don't.
The women folk in this was the most disappointing of all. Everyone was heartbreaking and just utterly horrible! The things these women had to endure make me think Larry McMurtry didn't like women or had a massive grudge. But it also kinda makes since in a time that was wholely different than our own and before the woman's rights movement.
I'm leaving this one a little sad but also ready to get to the meat and potatoes of the Lonesome Dove series book three Lonesome Dove itself is next."
Sarah
"I read these in the order that the author wrote them, which is not in chronological order. So this was the last one I read. Very sad leaving the familiar and loved characters, as well as dusty ‘ol Texas. Really great reading experience."
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Loretta Mattos
"So far my favourite in the series. "
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Meredith