Comanche Moon (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780780783720)

Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry, a brilliant and haunting novel richly capable of standing on its own, completes the author's epic four-volume cycle of novels of the American West that began in 1985 with the Pulitzer Prize -- winning masterpiece, Lonesome Dove. We join Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow F. Call in their middle years, just beginning to deal with the perplexing tensions of adult life -- Gus and his great love, Clara Forsythe; Call and Maggie Tilton, the young whore who loves him -- when they enlist with a Ranger troop in pursuit of Buffalo Hump, the great Comanche war chief; Kicking Wolf, the celebrated Comanche horse thief; and a deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for torture. Assisting the Rangers in their wild chase is the renowned Kickapoo tracker, Famous Shoes. Comanche Moon joins the twenty-year time line between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove, as we follow beloved heroes Gus and Call and their comrades-in-arms -- Deets, Jake Spoon, and Pea Eye Parker -- in their bitter struggle to protect an advancing Western frontier against the defiant Comanches, courageously determined to defend their territory and their way of life.

Author: Larry McMurtry
ISBN-10: 0780783727
ISBN-13: 9780780783720
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1998
Pages: 803
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.10w x 1.50d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.5
Point Value: 42
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 24953 / Comanche Moon