I started my #PulitzerProject with Larry McMurtry's modern classic Lonesome Dove, which won the fiction prize in 1986. An epic western that explores myths of the old west, it just could be the elusive Great American Novel. Does it claim the title? Does it hold up? And how did it manage to win the #PulitzerPrize for Fiction despite the fact that it wasn't actually the book the Pulitzer jury preferred a different book?

This is the 30th Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction I have read, and the first since taking up the challenge to read every book that has won in this category.

Full Lonesome Dove review from me:
Chronicle of the Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction: https://www.google.com/books/edition/...
For a different opinion check out Lindsey's Lonesome Dove vlog:    • Video  

Further Viewing
What Is the Great American Novel?    • What Is the Great American Novel?  
1937: Is Gone With the Wind Racist?    • Is Gone With the Wind Racist? A Pulit...  
1988: Beloved and the Ghosts of Slavery:    • Can America Reckon With the Ghosts of...  
The 2012 Pulitzer Controversy:    • Do Book Prizes Owe Us a Winner Every ...  
2018: What Type of Book Deserves to Win Book Awards?    • What Type of Book Deserves to Win Lit...  

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