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The Last Kind Words Saloon


A Western Novel


Subgenres:

  • Historical Fiction,
  • American West,
  • Literary Fiction
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Irreverent takes on legendary figures like Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday
  • Western stories about the fading frontier and end of an era
  • Dry humor woven through iconic cowboy friendships
Publisher Description

New York Times Bestseller. Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Seattle Times.

The Last Kind Words Saloon marks the triumphant return of Larry McMurtry to the nineteenth-century West of his classic Lonesome Dove.

In this comically subversive work of fiction, Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.

Tracing their legendary friendship from the settlement of Long Grass, Texas, to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, The Last Kind Words Saloon finds Wyatt and Doc living out the last days of a cowboy lifestyle that is already passing into history.

In his stark and peerless prose McMurtry writes of the myths and men that live on even as the storied West that forged them disappears.

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