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The Berrybender narratives / Larry McMurtry.
A single-volume anthology of the epic story of the Berrybender pioneer family follows the relocation of British aristocrats Lord and Lady Berrybender to 1830 Texas, where their idealistic plans are shaped by their daughter's relationship with frontiersman Jim Snow.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781451647723 (hc.)
- Physical Description: 911 p. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- 4 volumes in one.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Sin killer -- The wandering hill -- By sorrow's river -- Folly and glory.
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- Berrybender family (Fictitious characters) > Fiction.
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- Western stories.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Valemount Public Library | f mcm (Text) | 35194014165716 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Greenwood Public Library | Fic McM Western (Text) | 35141000144049 | Westerns | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kitimat Public Library | McM (Text) | 32665001636317 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Nelson Public Library | F MCM (Text) | 3514830012408 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Quesnel Branch | MCM (Text) | 33923004827121 | Western | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Trail and District Public Library Main Branch | F MCM (Text) | 35110000470332 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Tumbler Ridge Public Library | AF MCMUR (Text) | TRL057815 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Williams Lake Branch | MCM (Text) | 33923004827139 | General Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A single-volume anthology of the four-part epic story about the Berrybender pioneer family follows the relocation of British aristocrats Lord and Lady Berrybender to 1830 Texas, where their idealistic plans are shaped by their daughter's relationship with frontiersman Jim Snow. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofLonesome Dove . - Baker & Taylor
A single-volume anthology of the epic story of the Berrybender pioneer family follows the relocation of British aristocrats Lord and Lady Berrybender to 1830 Texas, where their idealistic plans are shaped by their daughter's relationship with frontiersman Jim Snow. - Simon and Schuster
A sweeping four-part epic of the American West that could only come from the boundless skill and imagination of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry.
Over a career that spans fifty years, Larry McMurtry has been celebrated as “one of America’s great storytellers” (The Wall Street Journal) and a writer who “stands among our best not only because of his uncanny ability to compress a cogent narrative arc but also because his eye for the moving detail is infallible” (Los Angeles Times). In The Berrybender Narratives, now published in a single volume for the first time, the author of Lonesome Dove delivers the unforgettable story of an idiosyncratic pioneer family and a truly unique view of the American West, reminding us again that his writing “has the power to clutch the heart and also to exhilarate” (The New Yorker).
In 1830, the Berrybender family—British, aristocratic, and fiercely out of place—abandons their home in England to embark on a journey through the American West just as the frontier is beginning to open up. Accompanied by a large and varied collection of retainers, Lord and Lady Berrybender intend to travel up the Missouri and settle in Texas, hoping to broaden the perspectives of their children, including Tasmin, a young woman of grit, beauty, and cunning. But when Tasmin’s fast-developing relationship with Jim Snow, a frontiersman and ferocious Indian fighter, begins to dictate the family’s course, they move further into the expansive and hostile wilderness and into the path of Indians, pioneers, mountain men, and explorers. As Lord Berrybender’s health falters, and the rest of the family goes to pieces around him, Tasmin finds herself taking command of their collective fate and is finally forced to decide where her future lies.
Full of real and fascinating characters, famous shoot-outs, adventure, humor, love, and loss, The Berrybender Narratives is an epic of the American West during its period of transformation, a landscape that nobody understands better than Larry McMurtry.