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  • Folly and Glory

  • Volume 4 of The Berrybender Narratives
  • By: Larry McMurtry
  • Narrated by: Alfred Molina
  • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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Folly and Glory

By: Larry McMurtry
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In the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives, Tasmin and her family are under arrest in Mexican Santa Fe. Tasmin, who would once have followed her husband anywhere, is no longer even sure she likes him, or where to go next. 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.

Jim Snow, Kit Carson, and one of Lord Berrybender's many illegitimate offspring make their way back to Santa Fe. But even they are unable to prevent the Mexicans from carrying the Berrybender family on a long and terrible journey across the desert to Vera Cruz. Beset by Indians and hounded by their Mexican guards, the Berrybenders endure all the horror of the Jornado del Muerto: the legendary Dead Man's Walk. The Mexican commander of the party falls in love with Tasmin, with unhappy consequences.

Starving, dying of thirst, they finally make their way to New Orleans, where Jim Snow has to choose between Tasmin and the great American plains. And after all her adventures, Tasmin must finally decide where her future lies.
Westward ho: listen to the rest of Larry McMurtry's Berrybender series.
©2004 Larry McMurtry. All rights reserved (P)2004 Simon and Schuster Inc. All rights reserved.
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"As always, McMurtry is a gifted storyteller who seamlessly melds multiple plotlines, paints vivid images, and creates memorable literary characters." ( Booklist)

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Jane Austen in the Wild West.

Funny, sad, sometimes surreal, interspersed with terrible violence and sex scenes that made this grown man blush.

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