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Viva!, 1984, 91-614-0018-1, 323 s, pappband med skyddsomsl, namn på förs blad, omsl med en ca 1 cm reva i överkant, mycket gott skick

Viva!, 1984, 91-614-0018-1, 323 s, pappband med skyddsomsl, namn insida pärm, omsl lite naggat ikanter, gott skick

Notations by previous owner in book front and back - Several pages have underlining. No torn pages - Writing with characteristic grace and wit, Larry McMurtry tackles the full spectrum of his favorite themes -- from sex, literature, and cowboys to rodeos, small-town folk, and big-city slickers. First published in 1968, In a Narrow Grave is the classic statement of what it means to come from Texas. In these essays, McMurtry opens a window into the past and present of America's largest state.

"It is 1830

Near-new condition - NO price clippings - Remainder mark on bottom of book - Price inside dustcover: $25.00 - Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages -

We join Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow F. Call in their middle years, just beginning to deal with the perplexing tensions of adult life - Gus and his great love, Clara Forsythe; Call and Maggie Tilton, the young whore who loves him - when 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. Assisting the Rangers in their wild chase is the renowned Kickapoo tracker, Famous Shoes. Comanche Moon joins the twenty-year time line between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove, as we follow 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 realistic and yet vividly imagined, Comanche Moon is a giant of a book - written by one of America's most honored and distinguished novelists - and the keystone to a mighty achievement of storytelling, unparalleled for its sweep, its meticulous re-creation of the past, its sheer energy, and its celebration of life: an epic adventure full of heroism, tragedy, cruelty, courage, honor and betrayal, and the culmination of Larry McMurtry's peerless vision of the American West

"It is 1830