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  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (January 1, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002C48ES2
  • Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.3 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (76 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,192,152 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. His other works include two collections of essays, three memoirs, and more than thirty screenplays, including the coauthorship of Brokeback Mountain, for which he received an Academy Award. His most recent novel, When the Light Goes, is available from Simon & Schuster. He lives in Archer City, Texas.

 

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20 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Vonnegut meets Lonesome Dove, June 3, 2006
A slightly absurdist romp through the Old West. Nellie and Jackson Courtright are orphaned when their Virginia-gentry father "suicides himself" in Rita Blanca, No Man's Land. Jackson soon becomes accidentally famous when he guns down 6 desperadoes - "beginner's luck" - it later becomes clear he can't hit the broad side of a barn with his pistol. Deputy Jackson never moves much beyond that episode, but sister Nellie, the main narrator, "organizes" and "copulates" (her phrase) her way across the West. She goes to work for Buffalo Bill Cody and also meets the Earps, Clantons, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, William Tecumseh Sherman and Lillian Gish who all make at least cameo appearances. And mostly they all already know of Nellie before they meet her because of her work with Buffalo Bill and her own famous writing. A cross between Kurt Vonnegut and his own Lonesome Dove, in Telegraph Days McMurtry delivers a wild, sometimes ribald tale that witnesses the translation of the real life in the American West into the mythological Old West.

Highly recommended because it's funny and still gives a good feel for the Old West.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Dangerous Ground, June 12, 2008
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It is always dangerous for a man to write in the voice of a woman, and this is an exhibit of those dangers. The main charactger and narrator is Nellie. Her voice did not come off as genuine. Her entire personality seemed to be what a man would like to see in a woman - an aggressive woman who loves men. This was true for her entire personality, not just her admitted obsession with "copulation" (the frequent references became dull).

The fictitious supporting characters in the book were interesting and the best part of the book. They were actually more interesting than the narrator. The famous supporting cast included Wild Bill Hickcock and Buffalo Bill, with a cameo by Billy the Kid. They seemed contrived. It was the unknown fictitious characters that gave any genuine western flavor to the book.

There was some good humor and spoofing of the old western novels, but all in all, the plot lacked depth and at times approached tedium. Although the book was not awful, there was little to recommend it. Nellie has an interesting life, but it did not seem the author was that invested in it. Therefore neither is the reader.

A quick light read, but nothing great.
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21 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars sending out an S.O.S., June 7, 2006
Larry McMurtry is a legend. Can he afford to coast? With that Oscar for the screenplay to Brokeback Mountain joining the Pulitzer for Lonesome Dove in his trophy case can McMurtry afford to write a complete dud? I guess so. Telegraph Days is a yawner. His protagonist, Nellie is a one-dimensional nymphomaniac who never lets us know what she really thinks. Just sex...all the time...sex...every guy she meets is a potential bedmate. McMurtry tosses in famous names like so many Madison Avenue product placements. General Custer wants her. Wild Bill Hickock wants her. Buffalo Bill doesn't want her enough, and so on. The book seems to think itself a comedy. More like a sedative. So lame. So effortlessly mundane. McMurtry is on automatic pilot here. He can do better.
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"I HOPE YOU'RE carpenter enough to build an honest coffin," I told Jackson, my younger brother. Read the first page
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Rita Blanca, Bill Cody, Wild West, Hungry Billy, North Platte, Ted Bunsen, Aurel Imlah, Dodge City, Buffalo Bill, Zenas Clark, Beau Wheless, Warren Earp, Teddy Bunsen, Charlie Hepworth, Miss Courtright, Jackson Courtright, Virgil Earp, Skivvy Kid, Sheriff Bunsen, Doc Holliday, Joe Schwartz, Andy Jessup, Bert Yazee, Danny Mueller, Lulu Cody
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