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Larry McMurtry - Buffalo Girls

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This novel represents McMurtry's version of the Calamity Jane story. The framework of this novel is a series of letters from Calamity to Janey, her daughter by Wild Bill Hickok. Buffalo Bill Cody is trying to put together Western oldtimers for his Wild West Show command performance for Queen Victoria. But Calamity Jane is a drunkard, and the others in the band are just as worn-out by their hard living.
 

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Not McMurtry's best...but still a decent read.

Date of Review:  Sep 27, 2008
The Bottom Line: For fans of McMurtry, but not as an introduction to this excellent writer.
Review: McMurtry's "westerns" are usually big sprawling sagas, brimming with great characters, over-flowing with plot developments, packed with humor and tragedy. They make you feel the openness of America's west. In such novels as Dead Man's Walk or The...
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Recommended to buy: Yes

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Has many of the usual great McMurtry...
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McMurtry is not as in control of his...
 
 

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Authors Larry McMurtry
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  Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg, New York Times Book Review: "Almost everyone in 'Buffalo Girls' knows himself and his world to be on the verge of extinction. They begin to understand that they have outlived their time. The question then becomes whether they can find a new way to live, or at least a new meaning to justify their lives. That most of them fail to do so should be no surprise, because the Wild West, as Mr. McMurtry seems to conceive it, [is] the childhood of our country and, like all childhoods, it must pass."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner (November 01, 2001)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.8 lbs.
ISBN: 9780743216296
 

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