The Berrybender Narratives

The Berrybender Narratives
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A sweeping four-part epic of the American West that could only come from the boundless skill and imagination of Pulitzer Prizeâ€“ winning author Larry McMurtry.

Over a career that spans fifty years, Larry McMurtry has been celebrated as â€œone of Americaâ€™s great storytellersâ€ (The Wall Street Journal) and a writer who â€œstands among our best not only because of his uncanny ability to compress a cogent narrative arc but also because his eye for the moving detail is infallibleâ€ (Los Angeles Times). In The Berrybender Narratives, now published in a single volume for the first time, the author of Lonesome Dove delivers the unforgettable story of an idiosyncratic pioneer family and a truly unique view of the American West, reminding us again that his writing â€œhas the power to clutch the heart and also to exhilarateâ€ (The New Yorker).

In 1830, the Berrybender familyâ€”British, aristocratic, and fiercely out of placeâ€”abandons their home in England to embark on a journey through the American West just as the frontier is beginning to open up. Accompanied by a large and varied collection of retainers, Lord and Lady Berrybender intend to travel up the Missouri and settle in Texas, hoping to broaden the perspectives of their children, including Tasmin, a young woman of grit, beauty, and cunning. But when Tasminâ€™s fast-developing relationship with Jim Snow, a frontiersman and ferocious Indian fighter, begins to dictate the familyâ€™s course, they move further into the expansive and hostile wilderness and into the path of Indians, pioneers, mountain men, and explorers. As Lord Berrybenderâ€™s health falters, and the rest of the family goes to pieces around him, Tasmin finds herself taking command of their collective fate and is finally forced to decide where her future lies.

Full of real and fascinating characters, famous shoot-outs, adventure, humor, love, and loss, The Berrybender Narratives is an epic of the American West during its period of transformation, a landscape that nobody understands better than Larry McMurtry.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781451647723
ReleaseDate 2011-11-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781451647723

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781451647723
ReleaseDate	2011-11-15
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781451647723

The Berrybender Narratives

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