{"product_id":"the-last-kind-words-saloon-9780871407863","title":"The Last Kind Words Saloon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cem\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2014\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The triumphant return of Larry McMurtry with this ballad in prose: his heartfelt tribute to a bygone era of the American West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003cem\u003eThe Last Kind Words Saloon\u003c\/em\u003e] 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\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Last Kind Words Saloon\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\"In this ‘ballad in prose,’ as McMurtry describes his latest book, he paints the familiar historical characters in unfamiliar ways… lovely.\" -- Richard Eisenberg - People\u003cbr\u003e\"A deftly narrated, often comically subversive work of fiction… If \u003cem\u003eLonesome Dove\u003c\/em\u003e is a chronicle of the cattle-driving West that contains within its vast, broad ranges a small but heartrending intimate tragedy of paternal neglect, \u003cem\u003eThe Last Kind Words Saloon\u003c\/em\u003e is a dark postmodernist modernist comedy.\" -- Joyce Carol Oates - New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\"Those who enjoy McMurtry’s rueful humor and understated tone of elegiac melancholy will devour the book in one setting.\" -- Michael Lindgren - Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] wildly worthy addition to the best art books of 2014… \u003cem\u003e33 Artists in 3 Acts\u003c\/em\u003e is a superb read…\" -- Maria Popova - Brain Pickings","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528284578135,"sku":"9780871407863","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780871407863.jpg?v=1731871067","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-last-kind-words-saloon-9780871407863","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}