description: A love story and an epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Richly authentic, beautifully written, Lonesome Dove is a book to make readers laugh, weep, dream and remember. Now a blockbuster television event.
language: English
title: Lonesome Dove
titlecomplete: Lonesome Dove
characters: Newt Dobbs, Captain Woodrow Call, Augustus "Gus" McCrae, Joshua Deets, Pea Eye Parker, Lorena Wood
genres: Classics, Adventure, American, Historical, Novels, Westerns, Historical Fiction, Literature, Audiobook, Fiction
ratings_count: 182336
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: Pocket