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Hello, Welcome to Brevard Book Club!! Everyone is welcome to join us. This is a light-hearted group for people who enjoy a good book and like to meet new people. Even if you do not get to finish reading the selected book, please come!! Our discussions usually turn into general topic conversations. We will introduce ourselves, give an opinion about the book, and a list of questions is passed around for the whole group to answer.
The group will select books a few times throughout the year. This is done by a voting process. Genres will be chosen and members who attend can select a book to be voted on.
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Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Melbourne Library, 540 East Fee Avenue, Melbourne, FL, USLonesome Dove is a 1985 epic Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series and the third installment in the series chronologically. It was a bestseller and won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1989, it was adapted as a TV miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall, which won both critical and popular acclaim. McMurtry went on to write a sequel, Streets of Laredo (1993), and two prequels, Dead Man's Walk (1995) and Comanche Moon (1997), all of which were also adapted as TV series.
## Premise
The novel, set in the waning days of the Old West, centers on the relationships between several retired Texas Rangers and their adventures driving a cattle herd from Texas to Montana. The novel contains themes including old age, death, unrequited love, and friendship.
## Conception
The novel initially arose as a screenplay that McMurtry started writing with director Peter Bogdanovich.[1] Originally titled Streets of Laredo, they wrote it with three movie stars in mind: John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and Henry Fonda. Warner Bros. liked the script, but the actors were noncommittal, especially Wayne, who was wary of the melancholy nature of the film. McMurtry later bought back the script from the studio for $35,000 for development into a novel, while continuing to write other novels, including the Desert Rose and Cadillac Jack.[2]: 292–306 He received inspiration for the title of the book after seeing the name Lonesome Dove Baptist Church on a bus near Fort Worth.[3] Simon & Schuster bought the novel for $250,000, with Irving Lazar acting as his agent.[2]: 322
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