Comanche Moon

A Novel

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Larry McMurtry: Comanche Moon (2010, Simon & Schuster)

720 pages

English language

Published April 29, 2010 by Simon & Schuster.

ISBN:
978-1-4516-0654-6
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3 stars (1 review)

Two Texas Rangers fight Indians and bandits while trying to sort affairs with their women. One is Gus McCrae, a hard-drinking womanizer jilted by his love, the other is sober Woodrow Call, father of a boy by a prostitute.

10 editions

Start with Lonesome Dove

3 stars

Fourth in publication and second in chronological order, it's a good read that doesn't quite live up to Lonesome Dove. The writing is good, and though it's interesting to find out what happened before the events in Lonesome Dove, I didn't find the story as compelling. There is also a section where a specific torture method described really bothered me and I had to struggle past it in order to finish. Worth the read, but I'm very glad to have started the series with Lonesome Dove.