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Streets of Laredo [Audiobook] (Audio CD)

by Daniel von Bargen (Author), Larry McMurtry (Author)
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  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: Sound Library (Feb 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0792731522
  • ISBN-13: 978-0792731528
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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McMurtry has published 21 novels (the best-known listed above). He also operates antiquarian bookshops in Washington DC, Texas and Arizona. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Captain Call Hangs Up His Holster, 15 Sep 2000
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This review is from: Streets Of Laredo (Paperback)
This would seem to be the last of the Lonesone Dove novels and its certainly one of the best and most poignant. We find Captain Call an old man having been hired by the railroad company to find a very young and ruthless mexican killer who has been robbing trains in the South. There are some great characters as usual, not least of which is the railroad accountant Mr Brookshire who accompanies Call to keep tabs on his spending but mostly to report to the railroad on their progress. The contrast between Call and the life the accountant represents is very clearly drawn. There is a wonderful scene at the start of their quest when the man's hat blows off as they wait for the train and the man watches helplessly as it is carried away on the breeze. He is about to leave the civilsed world behind. Call is still able to frighten most men on the basis of his reputation alone but this book is about the transition a man has to make when he is too old to live life on the frontier. It is littered with men who are coming to the end of their time, characters like Charlie Goodnight who appears in several of the previous books. Call replays the past as he chases his prey and slowly begins to change. Pea Eye joins Call's quest only to change his mind and return to his wife and children. Call is left to fight on even though he he knows that his time for fighting has past. Call's vulnerability rings true and the outcome of the story is in doubt to the last.
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5.0 out of 5 stars McMurty strikes gold again, 21 Jan 2008
By PJJ McGEE (Newcastle, N. Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Streets of Laredo (Hardcover)
Having read Lonesome Dove and Dead Man's Walk, I was afraid that this book would not live up to expectations but I found it to be absolutely absorbing from cover to cover. Yes, there were stark descriptions of cruelty, indeed evil, but the west at that time was a cruel and evil place so McMurty was only describing reality. I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Sequels don't always live up to the original, 30 Dec 2003
By Kathy Lang (Cornwall, U.K.) - See all my reviews
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Having very much enjoyed Lonesome Dove, McMurtry's classic Pulitzer-Prize winning epic about the American West, I was looking forward to finding out how the story continued. The adventure is well described and the characters, especially the new ones like Brookshire, the accountant pitched by his irascible boss into the very wild no-man's-land of the Texan Mexican border, are as ever excellent. But the weaknesses of Lonesome Dove are here, too, especially the apparent inability of most of the characters to change or to learn from experience. And the greatest turnoff of all was here in a far worse form: the emphasis on mindless, hideous cruelty, including, this time, sadistic treatment of children and animals - the stuff of nightmare to the extent that I could not read this book again.
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