Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond

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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond - Paperback

Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond - Paperback

by Larry McMurtry
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by Larry McMurtry (Author)

In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction, Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become.

Using an essay by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin that he first read in Archer City's Dairy Queen, McMurtry examines the small town way of life that big oil and big ranching have nearly destroyed. 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.​

McMurtry 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. Throughout, McMurtry leaves his readers with constant reminders of his all-encompassing, boundless love of literature and books.

Author Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 208
Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: August 07, 2001
ISBN9780684870199
Author Larry McMurtry
PublisherSimon & Schuster
GenreBiography and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2001
LanguageENG- English
Pages208
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Biography & Autobiography Literary Criticism Nonfiction

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