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Title: Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0-671-75380-0 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting Book!
Comment: Perhaps there is more to life, other than sex, especially as one grows older. What about enduring friendship? Three different characters, three different viewpoints. Thought-provoking narrative for the reader to ponder and consider as the country western song tells us: "time changes everything". Worthwhile read!
Evelyn Horan - teacher/counselor/children's author
Jeannie, A Texas Frontier Girl, Books One - Three
Rating: 5
Summary: a unique concept well done
Comment: I read this book some years ago and I was very impressed. I enjoyed just about all of Larry McMurtry's early (pre-Lonesome Dove) works. Indeed, I felt that his three greatest works were "The Last Picture Show", "Lonesome Dove", and "Leaving Cheyenne". After "Lonesome Dove", I think McMurtry lost a lot of his sense of reality as a writer. In "Leaving Cheyenne", McMurtry tells a common enough love triangle story but in a most unique method. The three characters tell their story from their perspective which, I'm sure, has been done before and probably with greater effect. However, what makes this book special and all the more enjoyable is that each perspective is given from a different point in time. Thus we have the serious young man's perspective, the pragmatic middle aged woman's perspective, and, finally, the fun-loving old geeser's perspective. Bear in mind that these three characters are all essentially the same age but looking at their lives together from a different point of maturity. It works, too. With the serious young man we sense the cold, calculated mistakes of a driven youth. With the pragmatic middle aged woman we see the acceptance that not everything works out the way you would want them to. With the fun-loving old geeser, we see that life is not judged by past mistakes; it's judged by how much fun you're having right now.
I noted some very negative reviews on this book. To each his own. However, it is a short read and I think you may get the same impression I did. It's worth a try.
Rating: 2
Summary: A struggle to read.
Comment: It took quite a while for me to get into this book. I just finished reading Texasville prior to starting Leaving Cheyenne. I was expecting more after reading Texasville. The book was written in the manner that an uneducated early Texas settler might speak, thus making it hard at times to understand. The story is told in three intervals with each character contributing his/her point of view. Too much emphasis was put on Gid (the main character) to leave so abruptly and shift to the thoughts of the other characters. And their parts were too short in comparison to Gid's. The characters have potential and the book worked off of a similar plot, I thought, to The Man Who Rode Midnight by Elmer Kelton. I suggest reading Elmer Kelton's book before this one.
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Title: The Wandering Hill : A Novel by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0743233034 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0671020641 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Sin Killer : The Berrybender Narrative, Book 1 by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0743451414 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Boone's Lick : A Novel by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0671040588 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Dead Man's Walk by Larry McMurtry ISBN: 0671001167 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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