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The Wandering Hill: A Novel (The Berrybender Narratives)
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In The Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her eccentric family in the still unexplored Wild West of the 1830s. Their journey is one of exploration, beset by difficulties, tragedies, the desertion of trusted servants, and the increasing hardships of day-to-day survival in a land where nothing can be taken for granted. By now, Tasmin is married to the elusive young mountain man Jim Snow (the "Sin Killer").
On his part, Jim is about to discover that in taking the outspoken, tough-minded, stubbornly practical young aristocratic woman into his teepee he has bitten off more than he can chew. Still, theirs is a great love affair and dominates this volume of Larry McMurtry's The Berrybender Narratives, in which Tasmin gradually takes center stage as her father loses his strength and powers of concentration, and her family goes to pieces stranded in the hostile wilderness.
The Wandering Hill (which refers to a powerful and threatening legend in local Indian folklore) is at once literature on a grand scale and riveting entertainment by a master storyteller.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780743262705
ISBN: 0743262700
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2005-08-02
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Studio: Simon & Schuster
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
The Wandering Hill -
This is quite a vivid depiction of life on the frontier and the contrast between the wealthy, spoiled Europeans, the frontier men who fed and protected the Europeans and the Indians. The character development was interesting as the story progressed. All in all it was a good tale with some colorful characters and great descriptions of the wild west.
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Distinctive characterization, fine story-telling -
I want to give this 4 stars but a computer glitch is preventing it!
Once again, as is the case in most McMurtry books, I was entranced by the characters in The Wandering Hill and by McMurtry's ability to tell a story or in this case many stories intertwined. Each person is described uniquely and the situations involving the people are consistent with the characters being portrayed. This makes for a realistic read in spite of the seemingly shocking and often perceived unrealistic events. Since the world being portrayed is somewhat unknown to the modern reader, we quickly accept the situations and find ourselves sympathizing and smiling with the people involved. This makes for a page-turner with an urge to know what is about to happen. Funny, tragic, energetic, entertaining, and personal, The Wandering Hill has something for everyone.
Yet, I was disturbed by the lack of purpose (one could argue that the people's lives in the West is the purpose) to their journey as well as the maddening lack of moral or political statements. I continue to appreciate this trait of McMurtry's writing, but also desire to read a tale that makes some kind of moral judgment about human behavior. Still, a fun read in all respects.
Interesting read -
I've read The Sin Killer and The Wandering Hill and I have enjoyed both. I can't wait to read the next two books in the series. there are a lot of characters and you would think it would be overwhelming when you first start reading, whoever, the cast rotates and gets killed offso rapidly, that you never really have to keep track of that many characters at once. Quite a bit of violence, and in general can be a harsh book. It is an interesting read though.
A Wild Saga - part 2 -
The Wandering Hill is part two of a four-part series chronicaling the adventures of the aristocratic, English Berrybender family exploring the American West in the 1830's on a steamship on the Missouri River. Lord Berrybender is accompanied by his gluttonous wife and six of his 14 legitimate children. The series is historical fiction in that it incorporates actual people such as Kit Carson, Jim Bridges, yet the tales are so fanciful that history is left in the dust.
Outrageous is the best general characterization of these stories. The adventures and their characters seem larger than life and more colorful than neon. Not for the faint of heart, unexpected, random, senseless and disturbing atrocities, injuries, and deaths litter these tales, with a side of lots of "rutting." The majority of the initial primary characters do not survive to see bookfour4 of the series.
Yet, the stories grabbed me. I went through the series like popcorn, wanting to see what amazing events would occur to the crazy Berrybenders and their growing entourage. The series is intense, rollercoastering through every facet of human emotion and many aspects of abnormal psychology. Nothing dull in these books. The frequent connections to actual historical persons and events keep the tales interesting and grounded, despite the continuum of bizarre incidents. Not for everyone, but I liked it.
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The Wandering Attention -
"The Wandering Hill" is the 30th book by Larry McMurtry that I have read. His best work was his early books through "Lonesome Dove". Since his heart attack, he seems to have lost his ability to write about "normal" people, preferring, instead, a cast of zany characters with a token normal person or two. I have not cared for this outrageous personnel and keep reading his latest books out of some sort of sense of loyalty. I was disappointed with the cast of the Berrybender's first novel, "Sin Killer", but read "The Wandering Hill" because it takes place a few miles from my home. Indeed, the visiting nobility (Berrybenders aside) are familiar names to local historians but their activities in the book don't match those of local lore.
I was getting frustrated with these crazy, obnoxious folks when it occurred to me that McMurtry is resurrecting the old Western "Dime Novel". The basic outline is there; use famous names to get the reader's attention but make up everything else. The Dime Novel idea that the more outlandish the story the better also fits right into McMurtry's style of late. What I can't figure out is whether or not Larry McMurtry is doing this on purpose (as some sort of tribute to that "genre") or has his talent evaporated to this level.
The essential problem with McMurtry, of late, is that his works lack depth. The "action" in these recent Westerns seem like what you'd get if Sergio Leone was directing the Keystone Cops. McMurtry's strength, for me, was always the relationships his characters had with one another. We were generally glad to meet up with the same characters in future novels. We start to get some of that quality of work in "The Wandering Hill" in the last 50-60 pages but it wasn't enough. Since they've left my neck of the woods, I don't care to meet up with the Berrybenders again.
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