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 	Title:                  Folly and Glory (BB4)
 	Author:                 Larry McMurtry
 	Read By:                Alfred Molina


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	 Number of MP3s:       	7 plus PARS and info
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	 Bit Rate:      		48 KB/s 
	 Frequency:			44 KHz mono
	 Run Time:			08:09 h:m

Story
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From Publishers Weekly
This is the fourth and final volume in McMurtry's Berrybender Narratives 
(following By Sorrow's River), a frontier epic of lusty and bloody proportions, 
in which, fortunately, nearly everyone is killed off. Lord Berrybender, 
an arrogant and lecherous Englishman and his whining brood of daughters, 
their brats and servants have been arrested by Mexican authorities and 
are under house arrest in Santa Fe in the mid-1830s. Tensions between 
Mexicans and Americans run high as the dispute over Texas drifts toward 
war. When the Berrybender party is expelled from Santa Fe, the group 
is forced to march across the desert to Vera Cruz, escorted by inept 
Mexican soldiers. The grueling journey is filled with hardship and death 
as thirst, cholera and hostile Indians whittle the group by half. Meanwhile, 
Jim Snow, aka the Sin Killer, a famous mountain man, plans to rescue 
his white wife, Tasmin Berrybender, and her family somewhere along the 
desert route. Once the rescue is complete and the surviving Berrybenders 
are safely in Texas, Jim goes after the gang of slavers who murdered 
his son and his Indian wife (mountain men seem to have a lot of wives). 
Here McMurtry really shows why Jim is called the Sin Killer and why 
white men and Indians fear the mountain man who shrieks "the Word" and 
shows no mercy when he is riled up. Of the four books in the series, 
this is the bloodiest and most brutal, with rapes, torture, mutilation 
and death heaped upon the characters until grief and despair nearly 
consume them. Add the disaster at the Alamo and a passel of colorful 
Texas heroes to the enduring figures of mountain men Kit Carson and 
Tom Fitzpatrick, and this grisly frontier soap opera concludes with 
a bang.


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