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Books : Telegraph Days: A Novel
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780743250931
ISBN: 0743250931
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: June 17, 2008
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Studio: Simon & Schuster
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Not since the publication of his own beloved classic Lonesome Dove has there been a novel like this one -- another big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the West from Larry McMurtry. Telegraph Days is at once a major work of literature and a completely absorbing read, not just great fiction, but fiction on a great scale, encompassing many years, many characters, real and fictional, and the whole vast landscape of place, time, life, and heart, which has served for more than one hundred thirty years as the background for "the Western" in fiction and on the screen. Nobody writes, or has ever written, better about the West than Larry McMurtry, and nobody has caught better in words its myths, its often brutal reality, its overwhelming size, and the way it captured both the imagination and the hopes of those who settled there, only, as was so often the case, to dash those hopes.
Told in the voice of Nellie Courtright, a spunky, courageous, attractive young woman whose story this is in part, Telegraph Days is the big novel of the Western gunfighters that people have been hoping for years Larry McMurtry would write.
When Nellie and her brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their father's suicide on his new and unprosperous ranch, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca, where Jackson manages to secure a job as a sheriff's deputy, while Nellie, ever resourceful, becomes the town's telegrapher.
Together, they inadvertently put Rita Blanca on the map when young Jackson succeeds in shooting down all six of the ferocious Yazee brothers in a gunfight that brings him lifelong fame but which he can never repeat because his success came purely out of luck.
Propelled by her own energy and commonsense approach to life, Nellie meets and almost conquers the heart of Buffalo Bill, the man she will love most in her long life, and goes on to meet, and witness the exploits of, Billy the Kid, the Earp brothers, and Doc Holliday. She even gets a ringside seat at the Battle at the O.K. Corral, the most famous gunfight in Western history, and eventually lives long enough to see the West and its gunfighters turned into movies.
Full of life, love, shootings, real Western heroes and villains, Telegraph Days is Larry McMurtry at his epic best, in his most ambitious Western novel since Lonesome Dove.
Rating:
- The Book Mill.........
This has to be the worst book I have ever read. I gave it to about page 200 or so to see if it had a plot and was very disapointed! This book must have been churned out by the "book mill" All I can say is I now have a shot as a writer after reading this horror!
Rating: - All about the money, eh Larry?
Maybe his worst yet, if he indeed wrote it. McMurtry somehow went from being an extraordinary writer to someone who now cranks them out for the money.I am a great fan of his early works but will not buy another of his books. I have been burned too many times in the past fifteen years.
Rating: - Droll
I would have possibly given the audiobook 2 stars if not for Annie Potts doing the audio. Not the best voice for audiobooks.
Rating:
- Living the passing of the Old West
"Obviously (Teddy) had kissing in mind, and possibly matrimony as well ... My Sundays were mainly dull. I suppose I could have stayed at home and hung curtains. But fighting off Teddy might be more interesting ... I didn't want much from Teddy, but I did want something - if not from him, then from somebody, or maybe just from life itself." - Nellie Courtright, in TELEGRAPH DAYS
Larry McMurtry is arguably an iconic writer of Old West themes. In his magnificent Lonesome Dove: A Novel (Simon ... Read More
Rating:
- SO MANY MEN, SO LITTLE TIME
Larry McMurtrys Telegraph Days give us a glimpse of the old west from a woman's perspective. The woman in question is a 22 year old Virginia native, Nellis Courtright who with her 17 year old brother, Jackson, resides in the town of Rio Blanca, a nothing little place located in an area known as "no mans land". The towns tenuous claim to fame comes from a gunfight in which Jackson, through sheer luck, kills six members of the infamous Yazee Gang.
Nellie is a self-sufficient, unique and ... Read More
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Telegraph Days: A Novel
by: Larry McMurtry
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780743250931
ISBN: 0743250931
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: June 17, 2008
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Studio: Simon & Schuster
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Not since the publication of his own beloved classic Lonesome Dove has there been a novel like this one -- another big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the West from Larry McMurtry. Telegraph Days is at once a major work of literature and a completely absorbing read, not just great fiction, but fiction on a great scale, encompassing many years, many characters, real and fictional, and the whole vast landscape of place, time, life, and heart, which has served for more than one hundred thirty years as the background for "the Western" in fiction and on the screen. Nobody writes, or has ever written, better about the West than Larry McMurtry, and nobody has caught better in words its myths, its often brutal reality, its overwhelming size, and the way it captured both the imagination and the hopes of those who settled there, only, as was so often the case, to dash those hopes.
Told in the voice of Nellie Courtright, a spunky, courageous, attractive young woman whose story this is in part, Telegraph Days is the big novel of the Western gunfighters that people have been hoping for years Larry McMurtry would write.
When Nellie and her brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their father's suicide on his new and unprosperous ranch, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca, where Jackson manages to secure a job as a sheriff's deputy, while Nellie, ever resourceful, becomes the town's telegrapher.
Together, they inadvertently put Rita Blanca on the map when young Jackson succeeds in shooting down all six of the ferocious Yazee brothers in a gunfight that brings him lifelong fame but which he can never repeat because his success came purely out of luck.
Propelled by her own energy and commonsense approach to life, Nellie meets and almost conquers the heart of Buffalo Bill, the man she will love most in her long life, and goes on to meet, and witness the exploits of, Billy the Kid, the Earp brothers, and Doc Holliday. She even gets a ringside seat at the Battle at the O.K. Corral, the most famous gunfight in Western history, and eventually lives long enough to see the West and its gunfighters turned into movies.
Full of life, love, shootings, real Western heroes and villains, Telegraph Days is Larry McMurtry at his epic best, in his most ambitious Western novel since Lonesome Dove.
Average Rating:
Rating:
- The Book Mill.........This has to be the worst book I have ever read. I gave it to about page 200 or so to see if it had a plot and was very disapointed! This book must have been churned out by the "book mill" All I can say is I now have a shot as a writer after reading this horror!
Rating:
- All about the money, eh Larry?Maybe his worst yet, if he indeed wrote it. McMurtry somehow went from being an extraordinary writer to someone who now cranks them out for the money.I am a great fan of his early works but will not buy another of his books. I have been burned too many times in the past fifteen years.
Rating:
- DrollI would have possibly given the audiobook 2 stars if not for Annie Potts doing the audio. Not the best voice for audiobooks.
Rating:
- Living the passing of the Old West"Obviously (Teddy) had kissing in mind, and possibly matrimony as well ... My Sundays were mainly dull. I suppose I could have stayed at home and hung curtains. But fighting off Teddy might be more interesting ... I didn't want much from Teddy, but I did want something - if not from him, then from somebody, or maybe just from life itself." - Nellie Courtright, in TELEGRAPH DAYS
Larry McMurtry is arguably an iconic writer of Old West themes. In his magnificent Lonesome Dove: A Novel (Simon ... Read More
Rating:
- SO MANY MEN, SO LITTLE TIMELarry McMurtrys Telegraph Days give us a glimpse of the old west from a woman's perspective. The woman in question is a 22 year old Virginia native, Nellis Courtright who with her 17 year old brother, Jackson, resides in the town of Rio Blanca, a nothing little place located in an area known as "no mans land". The towns tenuous claim to fame comes from a gunfight in which Jackson, through sheer luck, kills six members of the infamous Yazee Gang.
Nellie is a self-sufficient, unique and ... Read More
Arts & Photography • Biographies & Memoirs • Business & Investing • Children's Books • Comics & Graphic Novels • Computers & Internet • Cooking, Food & Wine • Entertainment • Gay & Lesbian • Health, Mind & Body • History • Home & Garden • Law • Literature & Fiction • Medicine • Mystery & Thrillers • Nonfiction • Outdoors & Nature • Parenting & Families • Professional & Technical • Reference • Religion & Spirituality • Romance • Science • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Teens • Travel •
