{"title":"Larry McMurtry","description":"Larry McMurtry (1936-2021) was the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lived in Archer City, Texas.","products":[{"product_id":"lonesome-dove-paperback","title":"Lonesome Dove - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 40th anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of the American West, with a new foreword by \u003ci\u003eYellowstone\u003c\/i\u003e cocreator Taylor Sheridan. An epic of the frontier, \u003ci\u003eLonesome Dove\u003c\/i\u003e is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"My favorite book: there are so many that I would be afraid to say. 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He praises the virtues of everything from a lime Dr. Pepper to the lost art of oral storytelling, and describes the brutal effect of the sheer vastness and emptiness of the Texas landscape on Texans, the decline of the cowboy, and the reality and the myth of the frontier.​ \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMcMurtry writes frankly and with deep feeling about his own experiences as a writer, a parent, and a heart patient, and he deftly lays bare the raw material that helped shape his life's work: the creation of a vast, ambitious, fictional panorama of Texas in the past and the present. 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These massacres involved Americans killing Indians, but also Indians killing Americans, and, in the case of the hugely controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857, Mormons slaughtering a party of American settlers, including women and children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMcMurtry's evocative descriptions of these events recall their full horror, and the deep, constant apprehension and dread endured by both pioneers and Indians. By modern standards the death tolls were often small--Custer's famous defeat at Little Big Horn in 1876 was the only encounter to involve more than two hundred dead--yet in the thinly populated West of that time, the violent extinction of a hundred people had a colossal impact on all sides. Though the perpetrators often went unpunished, many guilty and traumatized men felt compelled to tell and retell the horrors they had committed. From letters and diaries, McMurtry has created a moving and swiftly paced narrative, as memorable in its way as such classics as Evan S. Connell's \u003ci\u003eSon of the Morning Star\u003c\/i\u003e and Dee Brown's \u003ci\u003eBury My Heart at Wounded Knee.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Larry McMurtry's own words: \u003cbr\u003e \"I have visited all but one of these famous massacre sites--the Sacramento River massacre of 1846 is so forgotten that its site near the northern California village of Vina can only be approximated. It is no surprise to report that none of the sites are exactly pleasant places to be, though the Camp Grant site north of Tucson does have a pretty community college nearby. In general, the taint that followed the terror still lingers and is still powerful enough to affect locals who happen to live nearby. None of the massacres were effectively covered up, though the Sacramento River massacre was overlooked for a very long time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"But the lesson, if it is a lesson, is that blood--in time, and, often, not that much time--will out. In case after case the dead have managed to assert a surprising potency. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The deep, constant apprehension, which neither the pioneers nor the Indians escaped, has, it seems to me, been too seldom factored in by historians of the settlement era, though certainly it saturates the diary-literature of the pioneers, particularly the diary-literature produced by frontier women, who were, of course, the likeliest candidates for rapine and kidnap.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367072661727,"sku":"9781476743882","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZGVNsNLETH9781476743882.webp?v=1789102309"},{"product_id":"the-last-kind-words-saloon-paperback","title":"The Last Kind Words Saloon - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this \"comically subversive work of fiction\" (Joyce Carol Oates, \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e), Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. 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She is one of the strongest and most interesting of Larry McMurtry's characters, and she stands at the center of this powerful and ambitious novel of the West.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51370047668447,"sku":"9780743262712","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/6WNySU6BU09780743262712.webp?v=1789150251"},{"product_id":"folly-and-glory-paperback","title":"Folly and Glory - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this brilliant saga--the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives and an epic in its own right--Larry McMurtry lives up to his reputation for delivering novels with \"wit, grace, and more than a hint of what might be called muscular nostalgia, fit together to create a panoramic portrait of the American West\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs this finale opens, Tasmin and her family are under irksome, though comfortable, arrest in Mexican Santa Fe. 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As both the creator of numerous works successfully adapted by others for film and television (\u003ci\u003eTerms of Endearment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLonesome Dove\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Emmy-nominated \u003ci\u003eThe Murder of Mary Phagan\u003c\/i\u003e) and the author of screenplays including \u003ci\u003eThe Last Picture Show \u003c\/i\u003e(with Peter Bogdanovich), \u003ci\u003eStreets of Laredo\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Oscar-winning \u003ci\u003eBrokeback Mountain \u003c\/i\u003e(both with longtime writing partner Diana Ossana), McMurtry has seen all the triumphs and frustrations that Hollywood has to offer a writer, and he recounts them in a voice unfettered by sentiment and yet tinged with his characteristic wry humor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning with his sudden entrée into the world of film as the author of \u003ci\u003eHorseman, Pass By\u003c\/i\u003e--adapted into the Paul Newman-starring \u003ci\u003eHud \u003c\/i\u003ein 1963--McMurtry regales readers with anecdotes that find him holding hands with Cybill Shepherd, watching Jennifer Garner's audition tape, and taking lunch at Chasen's again and again. McMurtry fans and Hollywood hopefuls alike will find much to cherish in these pages, as McMurtry illuminates life behind the scenes in America's dream factory.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51433907814623,"sku":"9781439159965","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/JHlkRpPXER9781439159965.webp?v=1790020809"},{"product_id":"books-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Books: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Larry McMurtry's fascinating and surprisingly intimate memoir of his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare antiquarian books is \"a necessary and marvelous gift\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Antonio Express-News\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpanning a lifetime of literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded at a wide variety of genres, from coming-of-age novels, such as \u003ci\u003eThe Last Picture Show\u003c\/i\u003e; to essays, like those in \u003ci\u003eIn a Narrow Grave\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eto the reinvention of the \"Western\" on a grand scale like the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eLonesome Dove\u003c\/i\u003e. Here at last is the private McMurtry writing about himself 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 above all as one of America's most prominent \"bookmen.\" He brings the reader along on his journeys to becoming an astute and adventurous collector who would eventually open book stores of rare and collectible books in Georgetown, Houston, and finally in his previously \"bookless\" hometown of Archer City, Texas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Reading \u003ci\u003eBooks\u003c\/i\u003e is like reading the best kind of diary--full of wonderful anecdotes, amazing characters, spicy gossip, and shrewd observations. Like its author, \u003ci\u003eBooks\u003c\/i\u003e is erudite, full of life, and full of great stories. Yet the most curious tale of all is the amazing transformation of a reluctant young cowboy into a world-class literary figure who has spent his life not only writing books, but rounding them up the way he once rounded up cattle. At once chatty, revealing, and deeply satisfying, \u003ci\u003eBooks\u003c\/i\u003e is Larry McMurtry at his best.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51433976365279,"sku":"9781416583356","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/FJtzEnXgnm9781416583356.webp?v=1790021175"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/larry-mcmurtry.oembed?page=2","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}