He also wrote the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain and his Pulitzer-winning novel Lonesome Dove was adapted into a slow-moving but quietly engrossing television mini-series. In summary, this book is fun, easy to read, well-paced, and well written and you should read it.Although his star as one of the great historical novelists of lives played out on the American frontiers (the West, that world between the lawless old and increasingly modernity) has been eclipsed by the darker works of Cormac McCarthy ( The Road, No Country for Old Men, All the Pretty Horses), the great Larry McMurtry has written some remarkable novels - and is an essayist well worth reading.Īmong other novels he wrote The Last Picture Show and its sequel Texasville, and Terms of Endearment. Everyone has their own motivations for what they do and no one's perfect. The characters are treated and developed with care and respect and we see things from their respective perspectives. No matter how much you want to cling to the past things change and you can either change too or fade away into history.

The Lonesome Dove Series is a must-read for fans of the western genre and Comanche Moon acts as a tribute to the transition from the old ways to the new. We also find out about what happens to Long Bill Coleman, who made his way through the torment of the death march in Dead Man's Walk, and Clara Forsythe, who Gus will always pine for. Call, McCrae, Pea Eye, Deets, Newt, and many more characters are all there and we finally get to see the evolution of Call's relationship with Maggie, the whore whose son Call won't claim. The book mainly focuses on the perspective of the Comanche people while forwarding the character-driven work he started in the previous entry. Inish finds out how harsh the frontier really is when he finally finds out what happened to his horse. He knows the land and helps Inish Scull when his exceptionally large horse is stolen by the infamous horse thief Kicking Wolf. He leaves for days on end but always comes back with interesting information. Famous shoes is a Kickapoo tracker who never rides a horse and yet somehow is always ahead of the Rangers he is tracking for. On the other side of the fence, we get to meet the incomparable Captain Inish Scull and the eccentric Famous Shoes.

Comanche moon by larry mcmurtry