{"product_id":"the-last-kind-words-saloon-9780393351194","title":"The Last Kind Words Saloon","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this \"comically subversive work of fiction\" (Joyce Carol Oates, \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e), Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Tracing their legendary friendship from the settlement of Long Grass, Texas, to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, \u003cem\u003eThe Last Kind Words Saloon\u003c\/em\u003e finds Wyatt and Doc living out the last days of a cowboy lifestyle that is already passing into history. In his stark and peerless prose McMurtry writes of the myths and men that live on even as the storied West that forged them disappears. Hailed by critics and embraced by readers, \u003cem\u003eThe Last Kind Words Saloon\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates the genius of one of our most original American writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcMurtry, Larry:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eLarry McMurtry\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and avid bookseller and collector, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay of \u003cem\u003eBrokeback Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e with cowriter Diana Ossana. Awarded in 2014 the National Humanities Medal for his body of work, his novels include \u003cem\u003eLonesome Dove\u003c\/em\u003e and, most recently, \u003cem\u003eThe Last Kind Words Saloon\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Archer City, Texas.","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613112340754,"sku":"9780393351194","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_622310d9-889f-4f88-9203-4fac9e72a973.jpg?v=1732387307","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-last-kind-words-saloon-9780393351194","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}