TITLE: STREETS OF LAREDO
AUTHOR: LARRY MCMURTRY
PUBLISHER: SIMON & SCHUSTER 589 PAGES; $25
THE BOTTOM LINE: The winding down of a grand American legend offers a vision of dust and death through a golden haze.
The never-fail first-line test worked just right for Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove (1985), one of the half-dozen or so best novels ever to come out of the American West. Here's how McMurtry started off: "When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake . . ." You can't stop reading there. ". . . not a very big one. It...
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