The Wandering Hill Display Tapa dura - 2003

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Continuing the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her family as they contend with the Wild West of the 1830s, The Wandering Hill conjures all the excitement and brutality of a singular era in American history. Larry McMurtry immerses us in a time when the journey of Lewis and Clark remains fresh in the collective memory of the frontier -- and when the tensions between the tribes of the Missouri and the encroaching settlers are on the verge of bloody, full-blown tragedy.

The Berrybender clan -- rich, English, fiercely out of place -- continues its journey up the Missouri River. Tasmin, the unforgettable heroine of Sin Killer, is on the verge of motherhood and living with the elusive Jim Snow. Jim, the Sin Killer himself, is about to discover that, in taking this fiery young aristocratic woman into his teepee, he has bitten off more than he can chew. Their exhilarating, deeply ambivalent love affair comprises the heart and soul of this mesmerizing story, as McMurtry charts the course of Tasmin's gradual ascendance to familial power, which comes in poignant counterpoint to her father's mental and physical demise.

The Wandering Hill -- a title that echoes a darkly evocative Indian folk legend which speaks directly to the novel's moral core -- is a divinely human comedy and a contemporary masterpiece as big as the West itself.