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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Larry McMurtry opens up about the triumphs and trials of his abundant literary career. Relaying his early interest in writing that began with a creative writing class at Rice University, to a career that boasts over 40 novels and an Academy Award-winning screenplay, this intimate portrait of the author offers a glimpse into an intelligent, honest and undeniably profound voice in contemporary American Literature.
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...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
550 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains' keenest witness since Willa Cather and Wallace Stegner. Daugherty traces his origins as one of the last American writers who had direct contact with this country's pioneer traditions. He follows McMurtry's career as a bestselling novelist and Pulitzer-Prize winner, and shows how life...
7) 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.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
146 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
McMurtry presents the final installment in his memoir trilogy. Tinged with his wry humor and Texas swagger, Hollywood is McMurtry's anecdote-filled take on Tinseltown from the year his Horseman, Pass By was adapted into Hud (1963) to the year he wrote the screenplay for the Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain (2005).
Publisher
RHI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (345 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Continuation of the epic tale of former Texas rangers who bury a friend in the south Texas town of Lonesome Dove and then drive cattle to their home in the lush ranch country of Montana.
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