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By Sorrow's River: The Berrybender Narratives, Book 3 (Mcmurtry, Larry. Berrybender Narratives, Bk. 3.)

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry continues his four-part epic, The Berrybender Narratives, with a new novel of courage and hardship that transports readers to a time when life itself was an adventure, and death was ever close at hand....

In their trek through the 1830s American West, the Berrybender family has experienced every blessing and hardship imaginable, by both the hand of man and the will of God. Now, Tasmin Berrybender leads her unconventional family as they struggle through an unforgiving land, losing loved ones and gathering new cohorts at the most unlikely turns. It is in these perilous circumstances that Tasmin's husband, the Sin Killer, disappears on a scouting expedition, leaving her to raise her young, wild son alone -- until she falls for another man. In this high-spirited and terrifying tale set against the background of the American frontier, Larry McMurtry once again shows that in the world of Western literary fiction, he truly has no equal.  more

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  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Nov-20-2008

Gripping scenes and emotionally sensitive

Unlike some of McMurtry's other books, which often present events objectively with a kind of emotional disconnect that makes the reactions of the people seem cavalier, By Sorrow's River reaches an emotional depth that goes beyond the story itself and delves into the psychology of the characters....

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  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Jan-12-2008

A Wild Saga - Part 3

By Sorrow's River is part three of a four-part series chronically the adventures of the aristocratic, English Berrybender family exploring the American West in the 1830's on a steamship on the Missouri River. Lord Berrybender is accompanied by his gluttonous wife and six of his 14 legitimate...

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  • Posted: Oct-05-2006

Not the Strongest in the Series

Although much fun to read, as were the first two books in the Berrybender Narratives, "By Sorrow's River" is the weakest link. Maybe because there is less action and more introspection, namely, willful, beautiful and impossible Tasmin Berrybender's increasinbly deep infatuation with Pomp...

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  • Posted: Sep-03-2006

Addicted to an odd series

I was hooked on the Berrybender series because of the hysterical humor in Sin Killer, so I bought the other three books in the series. I'm reading the series as one long book, and I see no other way to read it. It is, after all, just one continuous story about the same characters on the same...

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  • Posted: Jul-04-2006

Tasmin Shows Her Berrybender Roots

If you haven't read either The Sin Killer or The Wandering Hill, I suggest you read at least The Sin Killer to get a sense of the characters before reading this book. Otherwise, this will probably seem like a dull two star book.By Sorrow's River is a reference to the way that Pomp Charbonneau...

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  • Posted: Nov-23-2005

Romance, Blood, and Myth

By Sorrow's River is the third of four novels in a series detailing the adventures of the rich, aristocratic, and eccentric Berrybender family--terribly out of place in the raw American West--traveling up the Missouri River and then across the endless Great Plains toward Santa Fe. The time is the...

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  • Posted: Jul-11-2005

Tasmin becomes difficult

In 1832, Lord Albany Berrybender chartered a steamboat to take him up the Missouri River on a hunting expedition. Albany is one of the richest aristocrats in England, and also a dissolute, selfish, old fool. Along for the ride are his wife Constance, six of their fourteen spoiled children,...

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  • Posted: Dec-25-2004

"It's a poor prophet who can't even save himself."

Now that I,ve just completed the 3rd book in the series,'By Sorrow's River',I am more convinced than ever that one benefits by getting these books together and reading them all,one right after another.Tonight is Christmas Eve and a little Elf told me that 'Folly and Glory' is awaiting under the...

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  • Posted: Aug-25-2004

Too much Tasmin

I'm a big McMurtry fan, but after the first two books of the series I became weary of Tasmin. The pace slows considerably, with her repetitive musings and reflections on "What am I doiing here?" I started skipping her chapters with no loss of coherence in the narrative. Her husband Sin Killer...

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  • Posted: Aug-10-2004

The Saga Continues

This is by far the longest of the first three Berrybender books. I got the feeling that McMurtry decided he liked the story and characters after the first two short but engaging chronicles and decided to add some heft to this follow-on.The Berrybenders, the dis-functional fictional family of the...

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