Streets of Laredo

Captain Woodrow Call - Gus McCrae's old partner and a Texas Ranger in his youth - is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal Mexican bandit. Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena - once Gus's sweetheart.

Their long, perilous chase leads them across the last wild stretches of the West into a hellhole known as Crow Town and, finally, deep into the vast, relentless plains of the Texas frontier.

The final novel in the Lonesome Dove quartet, Streets of Laredo is an exhilarating, elegiac and achingly poignant tale of heroism and friendship.

'The winding down of a grand American legend offers a vision of dust and death through a golden haze' Time

'One of McMurtry's most powerful and moving achievements' Los Angeles Times

About the author

Larry McMurtry was the author of more than thirty novels and memoirs, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. He received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Brokeback Mountain. The cinematic treatment of Terms of Endearment swept the boards at the 1984 Academy Awards, winning Oscars in several categories, including Best Picture. McMurtry died in 2021 in Archer City, TX, at the age of 84.

Summary

The final book of the Lonesome Dove quartet, set in the American West.

Product details

• Authors: Larry Mcmurtry, McMurtry Larry
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.02.2015
• EAN: 9781447274681
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-7468-1
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Lonesome Dove
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Texas, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Country and Western, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Narrative theme: Sense of place