num_pages: 858
description: A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize— winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember.
language: English
title: Lonesome Dove
titlecomplete: Lonesome Dove
characters: Captain Woodrow Call, Pea Eye Parker, Joshua Deets, Newt Dobbs, Lorena Wood, Augustus "Gus" McCrae
genres: Historical, Literature, Audiobook, American, Classics, Adventure, Novels, Westerns, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 182293
places: Texas, The United States of America
series: Lonesome Dove
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Spur Award
category: Best Western Novel
publisher: Simon & Schuster