New York Times
Bestseller Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the
Seattle Times
The Last Kind Words Saloon
marks the triumphant return of Larry McMurtry to the nineteenth-century West of his classic
Lonesome Dove
.
In this "comically subversive work of fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates,
New York Review of Books
), Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Tracing their legendary friendship from the settlement of Long Grass, Texas, to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona,
finds Wyatt and Doc living out the last days of a cowboy lifestyle that is already passing into history. In his stark and peerless prose McMurtry writes of the myths and men that live on even as the storied West that forged them disappears. Hailed by critics and embraced by readers,
celebrates the genius of one of our most original American writers.