Record Added: 3/29/2014 Series The Berrybender Narratives Setting  United States Topic Historical Fiction History: Western Expansio Publisher Simon and Schuster ISBN 0743233050 Year 2004 Age Adult Pages 236 Description Printed dustjacket
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In this, the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives, Larry McMurtry fits together to create a panoramic portrait of the American West. As this finale opens, Tasmin and her family are under irksome, though comfortable, arrest in Mexican Santa Fe. Her father, the eccentric Lord Berrybender, is planning to head for Texas with his whole family and his retainers, English, American, and Native American.
Tasmin, who would once have followed her husband, Jim Snow, anywhere, is no longer even sure she likes him, or knows where to go to next. Neither does anyone else -- even Captain Clark, of Lewis and Clark fame, is puzzled by the great changes sweeping over the West, replacing red men and buffalo with towns and farms.
With a cast of characters that includes almost every major real-life figure of the West, Folly and Glory is a novel that represents the culmination of a great and unique four-volume saga of the early days of the West; it is one of Larry McMurtry's finest achievements. |
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