Thursday, April 18, 2024

Book review - "The Last Kind Words Saloon" by Larry McMurtry (2014)

 Short novel set in the old West involving Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday with appearances from Charles Goodnight and Indians and Nellie Bly, I think. Oh and Buffalo Bill Cody. One of McMurtry's "I write ten pages a day so here's a novel" books but it's easy to read, and. being about Wyatt Earp gives it freshness. There's amiable talk with brief interspersed violence, and some Indian torture - McMurtry really loved putting that in his later books. The gunfight at the OK Corrall is dealt with very quickly.

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