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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In a prolific life of singular literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded in a variety of genres: in coming-of-age novels like The Last Picture Show; in collections of essays like In a Narrow Grave; and in the reinvention of the Western on a grand scale in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove. Now, in Books: A Memoir, McMurtry writes about his endless passion for books: as a boy growing up in a largely "bookless" world; as a young...
3) Paradise
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
159 pages : portraits, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The author recounts his 1999 odyssey to Tahiti and the South Seas Islands, a journey he took in response to his dying mother's revelations about her marriage, relationship with his father, and life against the harsh, violent landscape of west Texas.
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