The Last Kind Words Saloon

by Larry McMurtry

First published 2014

As the Wild West fades, legendary gunmen Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday drift aimlessly between towns, their storied exploits reduced to whiskey-soaked anecdotes. But when they arrive in Tombstone, Arizona, the past catches up to them in a deadly confrontation at the O.K. Corral. McMurtry's gritty, elegiac tale charts the twilight of these American icons, their fabled bond tested by the encroaching modern world.

Genres: american-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, american, 19th-century

Vibes: atmospheric, elegiac, gritty

Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, twilight-of-an-era

Setting: Tombstone, Arizona

Period: 19th-century

196 pages · Hardcover · Liveright

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