Larry Mcmurtry, Western | Memoir Options

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About Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Lonesome Dove, is the author of twenty-seven novels, two collections of essays, three memoirs, and more than thirty screenplays, and is the editor of an anthology of modern Western fiction. He lives in Archer City, Texas.

Complete Bibliography:

Last Picture Show
1. The Last Picture Show (1966)
2. Texasville (1987)
3. Duane's Depressed (1999)
4. When the Light Goes (2007)

Terms of Endearment
Terms of Endearment (1975)
The Evening Star (1992)

Desert Rose
1. The Desert Rose (1983)
2. The Late Child (1995)

Lonesome Dove
1. Lonesome Dove (1985)
2. Streets of Laredo (1993)
3. Dead Man's Walk (1995)
4. Comanche Moon (1997)

Berrybender Narrative
1. Sin Killer (2002)
2. The Wandering Hill (2003)
3. By Sorrow's River (2003)
4. Folly and Glory (2004)

Novels
Horseman, Pass by (1961)
Leaving Cheyenne (1963)
Moving On (1970)
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers (1972)
Cadillac Jack (1982)
Somebody's Darling (1987)
Anything for Billy (1989)
Some Can Whistle (1989)
Buffalo Girls (1990)
Pretty Boy Floyd (1994)
Zeke and Ned (1997)
Boone's Lick (2000)
Loop Group (2004)
Telegraph Days (2006)
Rhino Ranch (2009)

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Lonesome Dove

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"Larry McMurtry's vast, wild epic of a cattle drive that is something more is full of action and unforgettable characters. The story follows two long-time friends and former Texas Rangers, Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae at the end of the 1800's. Their lives as cattle ranchers along the Rio Grande have lost the excitement of their younger lawman days. They set off on a long and difficult cattle drive to Montana along with an outlaw named Jake Spoon, who suggests the journey, a dancehall girl, Lorena Wood, Call's son Newt, and numerous ranch hands.

Along the way to Montana, Lorena is kidnapped by a fierce Indian warrior named Blue Duck but is rescued by McCrae. Jake eventually abandons the trail as he takes up with several prior criminal acquaintances who then proceed to steal horses and murder “sod busters”. Jake is caught and hanged by his old friends Gus and Woodrow. Sheriff July Johnson is traveling from Arkansas trying to track down his runaway wife. They encounter a desperate and starving tribe of Indians. Call reunites with his old flame Clara and leaves Newt with her. The cattle and horses make it to Montana at last although the same cannot be said for many of the original riders who set out from Texas, as several of the cattle drive riders (including one very shockingly prominent character) die along the way by water moccasins, Indian attacks, gunshot wounds, etc.

Lonesome Dove is a long novel with dozens of subplots and storylines. It is emotionally draining to follow along at times. The reader may feel the achievement of reaching the book's end comparable to the efforts of the story's heroes. "

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With this new historical Western, Larry McMurtry returns to the genre in which he created such memorable characters as Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call. In collaboration with Pretty Boy Floyd coauthor Diana Ossana, he dramatizes the Cherokee struggle for independence following the Civil War. Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie are the last Cherokee warriors, men of legend and history, whose fates are a consequence of such brutal policies as the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the infamous Trail of Tears. They struggle to find honor in a harsh, violent land under the relentless pressure of white law and broken promises. Every bit as tough as their men, the women in Zeke and Ned are determined to raise their families and keep the two men alive--whatever it takes.

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THE LAST PICTURE SHOW/TEXASVILLE STORY TRILOGY BOOK 3:

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THE FINAL VOLUME OF THE LAST PICTURE SHOW/TEXASVILLE STORY
In The Last Picture Show and Texasville, Larry McMurtry created a cast that achieved instant recognition, both in print and on the screen-Duane, his friend and rival, Sonny, Jacy, Ruth Popper, Karla, Lester, and the oil-patch town of Thalia. Now, in Duane's Depressed, McMurtry brings the Thalia saga to an end with Duane confronting depression in the midst of plenty.
Surrounded by his children, wife, and friends all of whom seem to be going through life crises-Duane can't seem to make sense of his anymore and shocks his loved ones and the local countryside by giving up his pickup truck to go on foot (and later by bike), a sure sign of depression, if not madness, by local community standards.
Utterly unsentimental, often hilarious, sometimes tragic and shocking, and in the end full of hope, Duane's Depressed is a major work art by any standard.

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A MEMOIR:

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Duration: 5 hours, 37 minutes
Release date: Sep 18, 2008

Larry McMurtry is known to be reclusive and extremely private, rarely giving interviews or making public appearances. Audiences are therefore sure to be eager to read this intimate and surprisingly personal memoir of the brilliant writer's love affair with books. McMurtry writes about his life as a boy growing up in a largely bookless world; as a young man devouring the world of literature; as a fledgling writer and family man; and as one of America's most prominent "bookmen," becoming the astute and adventurous collector who would eventually open stores of rare and collectible books in Georgetown, Houston, and his hometown of Archer, Texas.

In Books: A Memoir, McMurtry gives us a lively look at the eccentrics who collect, sell, or simply lust after rare books. Books is like the best kind of diary - full of wonderful anecdotes, amazing characters, great gossip, and shrewd observations about authors, book people, literature, and himself. At once chatty, revealing, and deeply satisfying, Books is, like its author, erudite, life-loving, and full of great stories.

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