The Last Kind Words Saloon

Larry McMurtry possesses one of the most engaging, tempting-to-imitate voices in contemporary American fiction, a voice so smooth and mellow you can almost hear the ice clink against the glass as he talksNew York Times Book Review

By turns droll, stark, wry, or raunchy, this peripatetic novel...will satisfy many readers who long for more from literary icon McMurtryLibrary Journal

In this "ballad in prose" as McMurtry describes his latest book, he paints the familiar historical characters in unfamiliar ways . . . lovelyPeople

A deftly narrated, often comically subversive work of fiction . . . If Lonesome Dove is a chronicle of the cattle-driving West that contains within its vast, broad ranges a small but heartrending intimate tragedy of paternal neglect, The Last Kind Words Saloon is a dark postmodernist modernist comedyJoyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books