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Seattle Times Best Book of 2014
The triumphant return of Larry McMurtry with this ballad in prose: his heartfelt tribute to a bygone era of the American West.
Trade Review"By turns droll, stark, wry, or raunchy, this peripatetic novel…will satisfy many readers who long for more from literary icon McMurtry." -- Keddy Ann Outlaw - Library Journal
"Larry McMurtry possesses one of the most engaging, tempting-to-imitate voices in contemporary American fiction, a voice so smooth and mellow you can almost hear the ice clink against the glass as he talks." -- Max Byrd - New York Times Book Review
"[
The Last Kind Words Saloon] is never dull, and it’s also very funny. As always, McMurtry’s characters are plain-spoken but subtle and full of dry humor… Moseying along with McMurtry is always worthwhile." -- Adam Wong - Seattle Times
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The Last Kind Words Saloon is a beautiful, dreamy, deeply melancholy book, connecting legend and disparate threads of history in a seamless pastiche of tall tales drawn against the context of their real circumstances." -- Nathan Pensky - The Onion
"In this ‘ballad in prose,’ as McMurtry describes his latest book, he paints the familiar historical characters in unfamiliar ways… lovely." -- Richard Eisenberg - People
"A deftly narrated, often comically subversive work of fiction… If
Lonesome Dove is a chronicle of the cattle-driving West that contains within its vast, broad ranges a small but heartrending intimate tragedy of paternal neglect,
The Last Kind Words Saloon is a dark postmodernist modernist comedy." -- Joyce Carol Oates - New York Review of Books
"Those who enjoy McMurtry’s rueful humor and understated tone of elegiac melancholy will devour the book in one setting." -- Michael Lindgren - Washington Post
"[A] wildly worthy addition to the best art books of 2014…
33 Artists in 3 Acts is a superb read…" -- Maria Popova - Brain Pickings
