Books with title Leaving Cheyenne

“If Chaucer were a Texan writing today . . . this is how he would have written and this is how he would have felt.”— New York TimesIn Leaving Cheyenne (1963), which anticipates Lonesome Dove more than any other early novel, the stark realities of the American West play out in a mesmerizing love triangle. Stubborn rancher Gideon Fry, resilient Molly Taylor, and awkward ranch hand Johnny McCloud struggle with love and jealousy as the years pass.

“If Chaucer were a Texan writing today . . . this is how he would have written and this is how he would have felt.”― New York Times In Leaving Cheyenne (1963), which anticipates Lonesome Dove more than any other early novel, the stark realities of the American West play out in a mesmerizing love triangle. Stubborn rancher Gideon Fry, resilient Molly Taylor, and awkward ranch hand Johnny McCloud struggle with love and jealousy as the years pass.

An unforgettable tale of a love triangle that spans a generation, of a friendship that endures from dusty wagons to private planes, and of a rancher's legacy that sprawls beyond memories and land. "A rarity . . . funny, wonderful, heartbreaking, exhilarating".--New York Times Book Review. McMurtry is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry comes the second novel about love and loss on the great plains of Texas. From 1920’s ranching to range cowboys and WWII grief, McMurtry is the undisputed father of the Western literary epic.Leaving Cheyenne traces the loves of three West Texas characters as they follow that sundown trail: Gideon Fry, the serious rancher; Johnny McCloud, the free-spirited cowhand; and Molly Taylor, the sensitive woman they both love and who bears them each a son. Told in alternating perspectives over sixty years, Leaving Cheyenne follows their dreams, secrets, and grief against a changing American landscape. Tragic circumstances mark the trail, but fans of McMurtry’s distinctive style will cherish his unforgettable characters and pathos of the American West.

A reissue of the heartwarming story of a love triangle--described by The New York Times as "a rarity . . . wonderful, heartbreaking, exhilarating"--by the bestselling author of Terms of Endearment and Lonesome Dove. The heir to a Texas ranch, his cowboy friend, and the woman they both love tell their own stories, over a 40-year span, and explain how they finally "left" Cheyenne.

Leaving Cheyenne traces the loves of three West Texas characters as they follow the sundown trail: Gideon Fry, the serious rancher; Johnny McCloud, the free-spirited cowhand; and Molly Taylor, the sensitive woman they both love and who bears them each a son. Told in alternating perspectives over sixty years, Leaving Cheyenne follows their dreams, secrets, and grief against a changing American landscape.

93214 (8 cassettes/11 hours). Copyright 1962, 1963 by Larry McMurtry; renewed 1990, 1991. P 1993 by Recorded Books, Inc. Unabridged. Narrated by John Randolph Jones, C.J. Critt and Mark Hammer. ISBN 1 55690 847 4. "My foot's in the stirrup, My pony won't stand; Goodbye, old partner, I'm leaving Cheyenne---Old cowboy song. Texas. Even as it enters a new century, it is still a clean, lean and hungry country, its passions quick felt and quickly spent, its hopes as clear and forthright as the morning sun. Bound inextricably to the land, its future is forged by young men and women like Gideon Fry, Johnny McCloud and Molly Taylor. Gideon, a circumspect young man, is torn between his need to find his own way and the more formidable challenge of following in his rancher father's foot-steps. His best friend, Johnny, takes each day as it comes, his restless spirit finding its only solace in the arms of a woman, a barroom brawl, or on the back of a good horse traversing an open range. And binding them all together is Molly, the elusive and passionate woman they both love, who gives herself to both, commits herself to neither, and bears each of them a child. Rugged, bold and volatile, the three of them struggle with history even as they make it. And they, along with the country that bred them, come of age together in this tender and intimate novel of the heart. "A compelling story...consummate skill."---The San Francisco Chronicle" (from back case)