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Telegraph Days: A Novel
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Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Not since the publication of his own beloved classic Lonesome Dove has there been a novel like this one -- another big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the West from Larry McMurtry. Telegraph Days is at once a major work of literature and a completely absorbing read, not just great fiction, but fiction on a great scale, encompassing many years, many characters, real and fictional, and the whole vast landscape of place, time, life, and heart, which has served for more than one hundred thirty years as the background for "the Western" in fiction and on the screen. Nobody writes, or has ever written, better about the West than Larry McMurtry, and nobody has caught better in words its myths, its often brutal reality, its overwhelming size, and the way it captured both the imagination and the hopes of those who settled there, only, as was so often the case, to dash those hopes.
Told in the voice of Nellie Courtright, a spunky, courageous, attractive young woman whose story this is in part, Telegraph Days is the big novel of the Western gunfighters that people have been hoping for years Larry McMurtry would write.
When Nellie and her brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their father's suicide on his new and unprosperous ranch, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca, where Jackson manages to secure a job as a sheriff's deputy, while Nellie, ever resourceful, becomes the town's telegrapher.
Together, they inadvertently put Rita Blanca on the map when young Jackson succeeds in shooting down all six of the ferocious Yazee brothers in a gunfight that brings him lifelong fame but which he can never repeat because his success came purely out of luck.
Propelled by her own energy and commonsense approach to life, Nellie meets and almost conquers the heart of Buffalo Bill, the man she will love most in her long life, and goes on to meet, and witness the exploits of, Billy the Kid, the Earp brothers, and Doc Holliday. She even gets a ringside seat at the Battle at the O.K. Corral, the most famous gunfight in Western history, and eventually lives long enough to see the West and its gunfighters turned into movies.
Full of life, love, shootings, real Western heroes and villains, Telegraph Days is Larry McMurtry at his epic best, in his most ambitious Western novel since Lonesome Dove.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780743250931
ISBN: 0743250931
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2008-06-17
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Studio: Simon & Schuster
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
Classic Larry McMurtry -
This is classic Larry McMurtry..along the lines of the Berry Bender novels, which were great!
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Annie Potts rocks this AUDIO book -
This review is for the AUDIO format of this book.
The plot has been cussed and discussed aplenty here. This is about the enjoyability and quality of the audio version.
I may hate the book in written form, I wouldn't know, I haven't read it, but in audio, as read by Annie Potts, it's quite entertaining.
I love audio books on road trips. I download them into my iPod, so I don't have to fiddle around with discs while I'm driving. Plus, you can pause them on iPods, not always so in a CD player.
The story can be lacking if the reader is right. I've always liked the work of Annie Potts, and I equally enjoy her reading of this story.
Overall.....good stuff.
Not Lonesome Dove...but so what? -
This was a pretty quick read due to its easy flowing style and first person narrative technique. Marie Antoinette "Nellie" Courtright narrates her own life story, most of it taking place in her 20's. Now, I've read "Lonesome Dove" as well as the three companion volumes to that novel and this book is no "Lonesome Dove". But that is not necessarily a bad thing. "Lonesome Dove" won the pulitzer prize for literature, presumably for the quality of the writing. My feeling is that it won for the sheer audacity of it. After all, it took the "Western" style of fiction away from the predictable cowboys and indian structure of Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour and steered it towards something completely new and different. Well, here we have another type of western novel that is different.
This novel seems to be purposefully over-the-top. By that I mean, Mr McMurtry cares little for realism this time around and focuses instead on the impossible-to-believe. Here we have a 22-year old young lady living at the end of the "Wild West" days that manages to meet, interact with, influence, and sleep with virtually all of the famous folk of the day. This includes Wild Bill Hickock, General Custer, Buffalo Bill Cody, Wyatt Earp and all of his brothers. Her journey (in just one book mind you) takes her from her western home in Rita Blanca (present day Oklahoma panhandle), to Dodge City, Nebraska, Arizona (where she witnessed the shootout at the OK Corral) and finally on to Arizona. She is vitally important to Buffalo Bill's Wild West show getting off the ground and she becomes a bestselling author of dime novels of the era. Unlikely? Yes. Enjoyable entertainment? Absolutely!
Read If You Must -
I love McMurtry's writing--I feel that "Lonesome Dove" will go down in history as one of the great American novels.But this novel just doesn't make it.You keep anticipating and hoping for something exciting to happen. Anything! But it never does.It just rolls on and on with the next page pretty much like the one before it.There is one brief incredulous gunfight and that's pretty much it.The "star" is a promiscuous woman who runs the telegraph station and has a dim-witted brother who is deputy sheriff. Read it if you must. Maybe you will like it.
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The Book Mill......... -
This has to be the worst book I have ever read. I gave it to about page 200 or so to see if it had a plot and was very disapointed! This book must have been churned out by the "book mill" All I can say is I now have a shot as a writer after reading this horror!
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