Title:
Streets Of Laredo
Genre:
Drama
Western
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Binding:
Hardcover
Narrative:
Third Person
Type of Book:
Fiction
Date Added:
2018-06-26 16:45:50
Synopsis:
Streets of Laredo continues that epic of the waning years of the Texas Rangers with all the narrative drive and elegiac passion of its forerunner. Captain Woodrow Call, Gus Macraes old partner from Lonesome Dove , is long in the tooth but still a legendary hunter of outlaws when he is called upon by the head of one of the railroads now crisscrossing frontier territory to bring to book a young Mexican train robber and killer, Joey Garza. Accompanied by an inappropriate railroad accountant from Brooklyn, a reluctant Texas deputy and gangling, awkward Pea Eye Parker (who is trying to give up the Ranger life and settle down to farming and family with the lovely ex-whore Lorena), Call sets off, roaming the border country in his competent, unassuming fashion. Along the way he manages to slay Mox Mox, a fellow whose specialty is burning his victims alive, but with his arthritic fingers and failing eyes Call is no match for the alert, ice-cold Garza. How Pea Eye eventually gets his man, and how Call, terribly injured, slips into the shadows is the stuff of this sprawling but minutely detailed yarn. As before, McMurtrys empathic way with strong women--Lorena as well as Garzas gallant but despairing mother Maria--is as beguiling as is his way of bringing to life both dark-dyed villains and courtly heroes. A
Author:
Larry McMurtry
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Publisher:
Number of Copies:
1
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$6.45
Automatic Estimated Date:
2025-12-03
Date Added:
2018-06-26 16:45:50
