""Lonesome Dove is Larry McMurtry's loftiest novel.""--Los Angeles Times ""A marvelous novel . . . moves with joyous energy . . . amply imagined and crisply, lovingly written. I haven't enjoyed a book more this year . . . a joyous epic.""--Newsweek ""The finest novel that McMurtry has yet accomplished . . . Lonesome Dove has all the action anyone could possibly imagine . . . [and] both in general and in details, the authority of exact authenticity . . . superb.""--Chicago Tribune ""Everything about Lonesome Dove feels true . . . These are real people, and they are still larger than life.""--Nicholas Lemann, The New York Times Book Review ""If you read only one western novel in your life, read Lonesome Dove.""--USA Today