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Telegraph Days by Larry McMurtry (2006, Hardcover)

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Experience the captivating story of "Telegraph Days" by Larry McMurtry, published in 2006 by Simon & Schuster. This hardcover book, measuring 9.2 inches in length, 9.4 inches in height, and 6.2 inches in width, features 304 pages of pure fiction. The book is beautifully illustrated, making it a great addition to any library. The book's genre is fiction with a focus on westerns and historical topics. It is written in English and is perfect for anyone looking for a great read. With its impressive size and weight of 17.2 ounces, this book is a great conversation starter. Get your hands on this amazing piece of literature today!

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSimon & Schuster

ISBN-100743250788

ISBN-139780743250788

eBay Product ID (ePID)57572285

Product Key Features

Book TitleTelegraph Days

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

TopicGeneral, Westerns, Historical

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorLarry McMurtry

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height9.4 in

Item Weight17.2 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-057459

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisNot since the publication of his own beloved classic Lonesome Dove has there been a novel like this one -- another big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the West from Larry McMurtry. Telegraph Days is at once a major work of literature and a completely absorbing read, not just great fiction, but fiction on a great scale, encompassing many years, many characters, real and fictional, and the whole vast landscape of place, time, life, and heart, which has served for more than one hundred thirty years as the background for "the Western" in fiction and on the screen. Nobody writes, or has ever written, better about the West than Larry McMurtry, and nobody has caught better in words its myths, its often brutal reality, its overwhelming size, and the way it captured both the imagination and the hopes of those who settled there, only, as was so often the case, to dash those hopes. Told in the voice of Nellie Courtright, a spunky, courageous, attractive young woman whose story this is in part, Telegraph Days is the big novel of the Western gunfighters that people have been hoping for years Larry McMurtry would write. When Nellie and her brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their father's suicide on his new and unprosperous ranch, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca, where Jackson manages to secure a job as a sheriff's deputy, while Nellie, ever resourceful, becomes the town's telegrapher. Together, they inadvertently put Rita Blanca on the map when young Jackson succeeds in shooting down all six of the ferocious Yazee brothers in a gunfight that brings him lifelong fame but which he can never repeat because his success came purely out of luck. Propelled by her own energy and commonsense approach to life, Nellie meets and almost conquers the heart of Buffalo Bill, the man she will love most in her long life, and goes on to meet, and witness the exploits of, Billy the Kid, the Earp brothers, and Doc Holliday. She even gets a ringside seat at the Battle at the O.K. Corral, the most famous gunfight in Western history, and eventually lives long enough to see the West and its gunfighters turned into movies. Full of life, love, shootings, real Western heroes and villains, Telegraph Days is Larry McMurtry at his epic best, in his most ambitious Western novel since Lonesome Dove., Returning to the big Western themes that have made him famous and beloved, McMurtry recreates the bygone days of the old gunfighters in a panoramic, sweeping novel told in the voice of Nellie Courtright, a courageous young woman.

LC Classification NumberPS3563.A319T38 2006