The Last Kind Words Saloon: A Novel [Hardcover]

Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West. WithA By turns droll, stark, wry, or raunchy, this peripatetic novel&will satisfy many readers who long for more from literary icon McMurtry. Larry McMurtry possesses one of the most engaging, tempting-to-imitate voices in contemporary American fiction, a voice so smooth and mellow you can almost hear the ice clink against the glass as he talks. [ In this ballad in prose, as McMurtry describes his latest book, he paints the familiar historical characters in unfamiliar ways& lovely. A deftly narrated, often comically subversive work of fiction& If Those who enjoy McMurtrys rueful humor and understated tone of elegiac melancholy will devour the book in one setting. [A] wildly worthy addition to the best art books of 2014&