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May 09, 2014DENNIS HENLEY rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This short novel of 60 short chapters has some moments that capture the McMurtry magic of Lonesome Dove and Buffalo Girls, but those moments are few. It has to be extremely frustrating for an author to have any new work judged in the light of his earlier work, but when you create such an iconic masterpiece like Lonesome Dove it should be expected. This tale of the Earp brothers and Charlie Goodnight had the possibility of greatness, but McMurtry did not spend enough time on the characters to allow the reader to care about them. Even Goodnight, a favorite of McMurtry, is only an faint blur against an impressionistic background.