Larry McMurtry's Books
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Oh What a SlaughterIn Oh What a Slaughter, Larry McMurtry has written a unique, brilliant, and searing history of the bloody massacres that marked -- and marred -- the...Read More -
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Still WildThe Real Western Canon Larry McMurtry, the preeminent chronicler of the American West, celebrates the best of contemporary Western short fiction,...Read More
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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...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
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Lonesome DoveBestselling winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, Lonesome Dove is an American classic. First published in 1985, Larry McMurtry's epic novel combined...Read More
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Boone'S LickLarry McMurtry returns to the Old West in a fast-moving, comic tale about a woman determined to conquer anything that stands in the way of an ultimate...Read More
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Leaving CheyennePulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry's unforgettable gem, the story of a love triangle that spans a generation and the great plains of Texas.Read More
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Duane's DepressedThe third book in the Duane Moore series that began with The Last Picture Show, a novel of older age that is by turns tragic, hilarious, and shocking.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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American Cowboy, June 7, 2013
...every cowboy's bookshelf. Read on for outlaws, gunfights, posses, revenge, and romance. In no particular order... 1) Larry McMurtry: Lonesome Dove (1985) One of the most iconic sagas about the Old West, this Pulitzer Prize-winner follows the...
WDSU New Orleans, June 7, 2013
...iconic Western wordsmiths. "The Son" is at times violent and dark, like Cormac McCarthy, vividly character driven like Larry McMurtry and panoramic in its scope, like James Michener, appropriate considering Meyer was a Michener fellow at the University...
The Advocate, June 7, 2013
...is a book that is less mystical and less symbolic than McCarthy’s. It’s a bit like Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, especially in setting, but without McMurtry’s self-mocking comic relief. Meyer is not from Texas. In fact, he grew up in the East....
The Source Weekly, June 6, 2013
...satisfy a distinct craving. Stretch out your hammock and take a load off. The Epic: "Lonesome Dove" — Larry McMurtry (1985) Capt. Gus McCrae—a charismatic, clever, womanizing Texas Ranger-turned-cowpoke—is perhaps the most likeable character in...
NWI Times, June 3, 2013
...Philip Potempa philip.potempa@nwi.com, 219.852.4327 Game-show host Chuck Barris ("The Gong Show") is 84. Author Larry McMurtry is 77. Singer Ian Hunter is 74. Singer Eddie Holman and actor Tristan Rogers (Robert Scorpio on "General Hospital") are 67....
St. Cloud Times, May 31, 2013
...Its a bit like Dallas (the TV show), if it had been written by Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy or Larry McMurtry. Its violent but amazingly readable. Bostelman calls Carl Hiaasens Bad Monkey (June 11) a perfect book for summer with his trademark cast of...
USA Today, May 29, 2013
...s a bit like Dallas (the TV show), if it had been written by Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy or Larry McMurtry. It's violent but amazingly readable." Bostelman calls Carl Hiaasen's Bad Monkey (June 11) "a perfect book for summer" with his "trademark cast of...
American Cowboy, June 7, 2013
...every cowboy's bookshelf. Read on for outlaws, gunfights, posses, revenge, and romance. In no particular order... 1) Larry McMurtry: Lonesome Dove (1985) One of the most iconic sagas about the Old West, this Pulitzer Prize-winner follows the...
Durham Herald-Sun, June 7, 2013
...draws on literature for her songwriting. When she first moved to Nashville, she was reading a lot of Larry McMurtry, whose work is often set in the Old West. “Early American life interested me, and it’s a consistent theme in my writing,” she...
CNN, June 7, 2013
...iconic Western wordsmiths. "The Son" is at times violent and dark, like Cormac McCarthy, vividly character driven like Larry McMurtry and panoramic in its scope, like James Michener, appropriate considering Meyer was a Michener fellow at the University...
Channel4000, June 7, 2013
...iconic Western wordsmiths. "The Son" is at times violent and dark, like Cormac McCarthy, vividly character driven like Larry McMurtry and panoramic in its scope, like James Michener, appropriate considering Meyer was a Michener fellow at the University...
WDSU New Orleans, June 7, 2013
...iconic Western wordsmiths. "The Son" is at times violent and dark, like Cormac McCarthy, vividly character driven like Larry McMurtry and panoramic in its scope, like James Michener, appropriate considering Meyer was a Michener fellow at the University...
The Advocate, June 7, 2013
...is a book that is less mystical and less symbolic than McCarthy’s. It’s a bit like Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, especially in setting, but without McMurtry’s self-mocking comic relief. Meyer is not from Texas. In fact, he grew up in the East....
Redlands Daily Facts, June 6, 2013
...Picture Show," 1971, 126 minutes, black and white; directed by Peter Bogdanovich; adapted from a novel by Larry McMurtry; with Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd. June 21, 8 p.m.: "El Barrendero," 1981, 107 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles; directed...
