Comments on: Books similar to those written by Cormac McCarthy? http://www.cowboycraic.com/cowboy-books/books-similar-to-those-written-by-cormac-mccarthy Cowboy Clothes too Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:31:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Panama Joe http://www.cowboycraic.com/cowboy-books/books-similar-to-those-written-by-cormac-mccarthy/comment-page-1#comment-186 Panama Joe Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:15:59 +0000 http://www.cowboycraic.com/cowboy-books/books-similar-to-those-written-by-cormac-mccarthy#comment-186 Larry Mc Murtry was writing fiction and screenplays for years when he wrote a "treatment" for a screenplay for a film that he thought would star John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and James Stewart. Everyone liked the treatment, but the film never got made, so he turned it into a novel called "Lonesome Dove" and it's awfully good. In fact, it finally won him the Pulitzer prize for fiction. If you like Cormac McCarthy and the Border Trilogy, then start with "Lonesome Dove" and continue with the (4 book) cycle. Lonesome Dove Streets of Laredo Dead Man's Walk Jornadao des Muertes) Comanche Moon<br><b>References : </b><br> Larry Mc Murtry was writing fiction and screenplays for years when he wrote a "treatment" for a screenplay for a film that he thought would star John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and James Stewart. Everyone liked the treatment, but the film never got made, so he turned it into a novel called "Lonesome Dove" and it’s awfully good. In fact, it finally won him the Pulitzer prize for fiction.

If you like Cormac McCarthy and the Border Trilogy, then start with "Lonesome Dove" and continue with the (4 book) cycle.

Lonesome Dove
Streets of Laredo
Dead Man’s Walk Jornadao des Muertes)
Comanche Moon
References :

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