Telegraph Days is an American novel by Larry McMurtry that was published by Simon & Schuster in 2006.[1] The book, McMurtry's 29th novel, follows two siblings, Nellie and Jackson Courtright, as they make their way in the Old West.[2] The work is set in the 1870s in what would become the Oklahoma panhandle.
Reception
Kirkus wrote that "Though the novel ultimately covers a lot of territory, this isn’t a return to the Oscar-winner’s epic sweep of Lonesome Dove, but it’s an easy, breezy read."[3] In The Washington Post, Sandra Dallas wrote: "Telegraph Days is no Pulitzer contender, but it's still a darn good read".[4] Other reviewers noted the novel's subversion of the mythologized West. Cheryl Miller of the Hoover Institute wrote that the novel "belongs to the parodic vein of his Western writing, cheerily upending every legend it can lay hands on".[5]
References
- ^ Cain, Review by Chelsea (2006-06-18). "Cowboys Are My Weakness". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
- ^ Jones, Roger Walton (Summer 2006). "The nature and art of McMurtry's frontier". Texas Books in Review. 26 (2). Center for the Study of the Southwest. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
- ^ TELEGRAPH DAYS | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ Dallas, Sandra (2006-06-04). "Blazing Saddles". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2025-03-13.
- ^ Miller, Cheryl (2007-02-01). "Creating The American West". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
Notes
- McMurtry, Larry (2009). Literary Life: A Second Memoir. Simon & Schuster.
- McMurtry, Larry (2010). Hollywood. Simon & Schuster.