Never heard of "Lonesome Dove", or that he was the author behind the movie Brokeback Mountain. I grew up in Italy, lived abroad for a few years in my adult life (northern Europe and Singapore), and spent 2012 to 2020 in San Francisco (I'm now back to Italy). Despite 8+ years of living in the US, I occasionally stumble on articles like this, and am very happy to discover yet another piece of American culture that I co…
If you have any interest whatsoever in Westerns as a genre you should read Lonesome Dove . It's about 850 pages but I'd be surprised if it took you more than a week to read. For the longest time I had no interest in reading it because, of all the things, the title put me off (I thought it would be a romance of some sort). His uncles were cowboys toward the end of the cowboy days, and when they were young, they'd hear…
If you feel uninterested in reading a western novel, consider that it’s primarily a character drama, and would be just as good if the setting were space pirates or whatever else.
I spent 5 years living near where Mr. McMurtry lived and wrote about - flat and boring as can be, but holy moley did his writing ever romanticize that area’s history effectively.