Larry McMurtry

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Best Fiction Narrator An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness. “My favorite book: there are so many that I would be afraid to say. Probably if I had to pick anything I’d say Lonesome Dove by...

In uno sputo di paese al confine fra il Texas e il Messico, Augustus McCrae e Woodrow Call, due dei più grandi e scapestrati ranger che il West abbia conosciuto...

Tutti sono stati giovani, anche Gus e Call, gli induriti venditori di bestiame protagonisti di Lonesome Dove. A quell'epoca, gli anni Quaranta dell...

Antonio D'Orrico Texas, ultimo scampolo dell'Ottocento. Gli infiniti spazi aperti su cui scorrazzavano le grandi mandrie del West sono ora solcati dai binari dei treni...

Capricciosa, dispotica e tranchant: così è Aurora Greenway, vedova quarantanovenne di Houston, in Texas. In compenso ha capelli stupendi e un corpo che mantiene sodo cucinando in modo sopraffino e mangiando di gusto. Gli spasimanti, quindi, non le mancano, ma come scegliere tra...

In 1999, Larry McMurtry, whose wanderlust had been previously restricted to the roads of America, set off for a trip to the paradise of Tahiti and the South Sea Islands in an old-fashioned tub of a cruise boat, at a time when his mother was slipping toward a paradise of her own. Opening up to...

In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award–winning motion picture, Larry McMurtry created two unforgettable characters who won the hearts of readers and moviegoers everywhere: Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma. Aurora is the kind of woman who makes the whole world orbit around...

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry comes the first in a four-volume epic journey through the early American frontier, featuring the Berrybender family, English nobility adrift in the American West in the 1830s. It is 1830, and the Berrybender family—rich, aristocratic, English...

The acclaimed sequel to Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic Lonesome Dove, and the culmination of the legendary western saga, follows the further adventures of these beloved characters as they reckon with their past choices and uncertain futures in the rapidly changing American...

As he crisscrosses America -- driving in search of the present, the past, and himself -- Larry McMurtry shares his fascination with this nation's great trails and the culture that has developed around them. Ever since he was a boy growing up in Texas only a mile from Highway 281, Larry McMurtry...

Quando il famigerato ladro di cavalli comanche Kicking Wolf gli ruba l'instancabile Hector, un cavallo cosí poderoso da essere reputato magico, il...

La plupart des voleurs de trains sont pas malins, et c'est une chance pour les compagnies de chemins de fer. À eux seuls, cinq bandits pas trop idiots pourraient braquer tous les trains de ce pays. Ainsi parle Woodrow Call, ancien capitaine des Texas Rangers reconverti en chasseur de primes...

La première partie de Lonesome Dove nous a entraînés à la suite d'Augustus McCrae et Woodrox Call, illustres ex-Texas Rangers, sur la route dangereuse du Montana, là où, dit-on, les terres sont encore à qui les prend. De nombreuses épreuves attendent le convoi lors de cet extraordinaire...

À Lonesome Dove, Texas, les héros sont fatigués. Augustus McCrae et Woodrow Call ont remisé leurs armes après de longues années passées à combattre les Comanches. En cette année 1880, pourtant, l'aventure va les rattraper lorsqu'ils décident de voler du bétail au Mexique et de le...

Aux confins d'un Texas encore sauvage, les jeunes Augustus McCrae et Woodrow Call viennent de s'engager pour faire régner un semblant d'ordre dans ce pays en devenir. Sous-équipés, piètrement entraînés et mal dirigés, ils s'apprêtent à traverser une série d'expéditions et d'aventures...

À la frontière du Mexique, le Texas n'est qu'un désert hostile où se risquent quelques rares colons. Pour les protéger, Gus et Call, Texas rangers mal équipés et sous-payés, officient sous les ordres du fantasque capitaine Scull. Le danger est partout : face à eux, le puissant chef...

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry returns to the Old West in a fast-moving, comic tale about a woman determined to conquer anything that stands in the way of an ultimate confrontation with her wayward husband. In his first historical novel in ten years, Larry McMurtry introduces...

Full of adventure, grace, and tragedy, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana tell the story of two powerful Cherokee warriors searching for the future of Indian Territory. Zeke and Ned is the story of Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors—two proud, passionate men whose...

Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Solo Narration—Female and Finalist for Fiction, Unabridged From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the Old West, told in the spunky courageous voice of a young woman named Nellie Courtright. When...

In this tale of high-spirited and terrifying adventure, set against the background of the West that Larry McMurtry has made his own, By Sorrow’s River is an epic in its own right with the return of the formidable, young Tasmin Berrybender. At the heart of this third volume of his Western saga...