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Larry McMurtry's Books
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The Berrybender NarrativesMcMurtry’s four-part novel, The Berrybender Narratives, is the epic story of an English aristocratic family’s journey through 1830's American...Read More
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Literary LifePulitzer Prize and Oscar winner Larry McMurtry's engrossing and deeply personal reflections on the life of a writer.Read More -
Lonesome DoveLarry McMurtry's major bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece about the Old West, updated with new material for its 25th anniversary.Read More
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Terms Of EndearmentA moving mother/daughter story of love and loss, and the basis for the 1983 Best Picture and Best Screenplay Oscar-winning movie of the same name.Read More
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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy QueenA near-autobiography, by turns comic and elegiac, from a writer of incredible acclaim, and a portrait of Texas as it was, is, and will be.Read More
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Horseman, Pass ByLarry McMurtry's stunning first novel, and the basis for the Paul Newman multiple-Oscar winning movie classic Hud.Read More
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Loop GroupThelma and Louise meets Terms of Endearment, as two ladies in their middle years venture on a wild road trip from Hollywood to Texas.Read More
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Desert RoseLarry McMurtry's bittersweet tale of a Las Vegas dancer who somehow remains optimistic in an arid land of supermarkets, casinos, and second-rate men.Read More
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Late ChildPulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry's beloved sequel to The Desert Rose, a mother's voyage across America from grief to hope.Read More
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Oh What a SlaughterA brilliant and riveting history of the famous and infamous massacres that marked the settling of the American West in the 19th century.Read More
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Idaho Mountain Express, February 8, 2012
...instances of a book merging into a movie is "The Last Picture Show." Is that because author Larry McMurtry worked closely with director Peter Bogdanovitch? Is it because the film was shot in black and white about a black-and-white era in a bleak setting?...
MENAFN, February 7, 2012
...(The Arizona Daily Star - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Best-selling authors and recipients of top literary prizes lead the parade of 400 to 450 authors in the Fourth Annual Tucson Festival of Books. Among them: Pulitzer Prize...
Time, February 6, 2012
...The Godfather, this is a family drama that spans decades and was based on an popular novel (by Larry McMurtry, whose works had also inspired Hud and The Last Picture Show). In Terms, the epic emotions are played on an intimate scale, and the gunfire is...
Time, February 6, 2012
...The Godfather, this is a family drama that spans decades and was based on an popular novel (by Larry McMurtry, whose works had also inspired Hud and The Last Picture Show). In Terms, the epic emotions are played on an intimate scale, and the gunfire is...
Examiner.com, January 30, 2012
...Prize. Other authors who have committed to attend the festival include: T.C.Boyle, Alice Hoffman, Elmore Leonard, Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana, and Richard Russo. The 2012 Tucson Festival of Books will be held: Sunday, March 11, 2012, from 9 a.m. to 5:30...
Rochester-Rochester Hills Patch, January 29, 2012
...Potter was in every book store window. By the time Tisdel was in middle school, she was reading Larry McMurtry. "I ready quickly and I read everywhere," she said. When Tisdel was a student at Michigan State University, she became involved with the...
Individual.com, January 29, 2012
...Junger (see related story). Authors popular at past festivals are returning, such as children's author Jon Scieszka; Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Lonesome Dove"; Academy Award-winning writer Diana Ossana; and mystery writer J. A....
Lumina News, December 15, 2011
...is Wilmington author John Jeremiah Sullivan’s "Pulphead," a collection of quasi-memoir essays said by Harper’s Larry McMurtry to channel the gonzo energy of the late Hunter S. Thompson simultaneously with the wit and insight of Joan Didion. Time...
Detroit Free Press, December 15, 2011
...style, Becky Berg suggests starting with a bookshelf. Anthologies like "Cowboy Poetry" share shelf space with novels by Larry McMurtry and Louis L'Amour in one client's cozy condo. The condo, perched on a hill on the Country Club Plaza, offers a view to...
Contra Costa Times, December 14, 2011
...imagined what life was like for his grandmother with the last name of Hatfield. "My favorite author is Larry McMurtry, author of 'Lonesome Dove.'" Earning a master's degree in sports psychology at JFK University, his teaching credential at Saint Mary's...
Inside Bay Area, December 14, 2011
...imagined what life was like for his grandmother with the last name of Hatfield. "My favorite author is Larry McMurtry, author of 'Lonesome Dove.'" Earning a master's degree in sports psychology at JFK University, his teaching credential at Saint Mary's...
Center for Defense Information, December 14, 2011
...densely packed and makes fascinating reading. Personal view? What keeps going through my mind is Gus McCrae from Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, after one of the Hat Creek outfit has ridden into a nest of water moccasins: "Eight sets of bites, not...
Chicago Sun-Times, December 14, 2011
...a football star to a coach to a journalist, novelist and teacher whose contemporaries included David Halberstam and Larry McMurtry, died Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011 in Fort Worth. He was 88. (AP Photo/Carter Milner...
Wyoming Public Radio, December 14, 2011
...appearance on Mountain Stage. Drawing from his family's storytelling tradition ? he's the son of novelist Larry McMurtry ? he fuses wry, literate observations about the world he inhabits with the snarl of barroom rock. The result is at times sardonic,...
