Format: DVD Physical Desc: 2 videodiscs (approximately 284 min.) : sound, color 4 3/4 in. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2008. Published in 1997, a tone of finality is absent due to the story taking place fifteen to twenty years before the events of McMurtry's magnum opus. Comanche moon (DVD) Average Rating 5 star (2) 4 star 3 star 2 star 1 star Contributors: Lovell, Dyson. An epic adventure full of heroism, tragedy, cruelty, courage, honor and betrayal, Comanche Moon is the culmination of Larry McMurtry's peerless vision of the American West. Comanche Moon is the fourth and final entry in a franchise spun from Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning western Lonesome Dove. Texas Rangers Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae pursue three outlaws, Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump, Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf and a Mexican bandit. At once vividly imagined and unflinchingly realistic, Comanche Moon is a sweeping, heroic adventure full of tragedy, cruelty, courage, honor and betrayal, and the culmination of Larry McMurty's peerless vision of the American West. Call as they are 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.Ĭomanche Moon joins the twenty-year time line between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove, as we follow Gus, 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, determined to defend their territory and way of life.Īt once realistic and yet vividly imagined, Comanche Moon is a giant of an audiobook and the keystone to a mighty achievement of storytelling. We join Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow F. 0007: Cast Signed Lonesome Dove, Set of (4) Collectors Edition Books Est. Lonesome Dove 1985, Larry McMurtry, Hermes 3000 Typewriter and more. Comanche Moon completes Larry McMurtry's epic cycle of novels of the American West that began with the Pulitzer-Prize-winning masterpiece, Lonesome Dove. 312 lots featured in The Estate of Larry McMurtry on by Vogt Auction Texas in TX, featuring Signed First Ed. A brilliant and haunting novel richly capable of standing on its own. The second book in the Lonesome Dove quartet, Comanche Moon, which follows on from Dead Mans Walk, follows ranchers Gus and Call in their bitter struggle.
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