A Voice From The Dark: Frank Lovejoy's Journey Int.Reflections on STREETS OF LAREDO (1993).McMurtry quotes the song in the novel's epigraph: "We all loved our comrade, although he'd done wrong." And that's why STREETS OF LAREDO-Call's last ride-takes its title from the famous cowboy lament about death and the futility of human striving. The clash of cultures brought out the best and worst of men and women. It is also, one suspects, the author's way of clarifying the meaning of LONESOME DOVE, which he felt got lost in the hoopla of its success: that bravery and cruelty were found on all sides in the story of Texas. Publication date 1993 Topics Outlaws Publisher New York : Simon & Schuster Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks americana Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive Contributor Internet Archive Language English. It is a brutal portrait, really-a way for McMurtry to drive home the point he wants to make about the myth of the West-that it was based on violence and racism and greed and all the unquestioned assumptions that make such evils possible. Streets of Laredo : a novel by McMurtry, Larry. The novel finds him in the twilight of his powers, as he slips from being the man he was (or considered himself to be) to being a crippled shadow of that man. He is, as Lorena observes, just a tired old killer. This is not the last sterling adventure of Woodrow Call, this is the story of his undoing. Ultimately, however, the novel is about loss and age, about moral and physical failure.
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