Larry McMurtry, Author Pocket Books $5.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67091-7
This fictional memoir of Billy the Kid is told through the eyes of an alien trite simile?gs Eastern writer who just happened to be along for the ride, saw it all and aims to set the record straight. ``The tale of random violence, unlikely romance...
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Larry McMurtry, Simon & Schuster, $24 (146p) ISBN 9781439159958
Prolific novelist and screenwriter McMurtry shares his history with the movies via breezy anecdotes and insightful reflections on a writer's fluctuating currency in Hollywood. McMurtry muses on the elusive and capricious nature of the filmmaking...
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Larry McMurtry, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1565-7
Prolific Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, memoirist, screenplay writer and bookstore owner McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, etc.) took a 1999 cruise to "paradise"—Tahiti and the South Sea Islands—"in order to think and write...
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Larry McMurtry, Author Pocket Books $6.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-671-56818-4
This sequel to The Desert Rose finds McMurtry's protagonist, a Vegas showgirl, at middle age and mourning the death of her daughter. (Dec.)
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Larry McMurtry, Author Simon & Schuster $21 (208p) ISBN 978-0-684-85496-0
After reading an essay by Walter Benjamin in a Dairy Queen during his hometown's centennial celebration, McMurtry set out to ponder how Benjamin's conclusions about the death of the oral tradition apply to his own desolate patch of Texas cattle...
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Larry McMurtry, Author Simon & Schuster $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-86886-8
Putting to rest the notion that with Duane's Depressed he had written his last novel, Pulitzer Prize-winner McMurtry (Lonesome Dove) launches a new series with this whimsical adventure set between Missouri and the wilderness of Wyoming. The...
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Larry McMurtry, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (544p) ISBN 978-0-671-62533-7
In this arresting, funny-sad sequel to The Last Picture Show, McMurtry's small Texas town of Thalia has gone from boom to bust practically overnight, a victim of the mid-'80s oil glut. Under the strain of financial calamity, the townsfolk are...
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Larry McMurtry, Author Simon & Schuster $16.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64308-9
Perhaps timed to piggyback on acclaim for McMurtry's latest novel Texasville, this stale collection of magazine pieces is a scam, all right, but it falls short of its titular pun only because the author demonstrates little of the delight in his art...
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Larry McMurtry, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64268-6
Anything for Billy is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's affectionate ode to dime novels, Billy the Kid, and the wild, wild West. Benjamin Sippy is a successful but unfulfilled pulp fiction writer who, suffering the throes of midlife crisis, has...
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Larry McMurtry, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64267-9
Picking up the life of Danny Deck, the memorable protagonist of All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers , McMurtry's latest novel is another dark comedy about the difficulty of maintaining intimate relationships. Unfortunately, it never soars as...
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Larry McMurtry, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-671-00116-2
McMurtry's prequel to his Pulitzer-winning Lonesome Dove spent 10 weeks on PW's bestseller list. (June)
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Larry McMurtry, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-68518-8
McMurtry's ( Anything for Billy ) meandering, gentle-humored threnody for the passing of the old Wild West, assembles an eclectic crew of aging friends, both fictional and historic. In the late 1800s, ex-beavermen Jim Ragg and Bartle Bone ramble...
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Larry McMurtry, Author Pocket Books $6.99 (560p) ISBN 978-0-671-79282-4
The sequel to McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove . (Apr.)
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Larry McMurtry, Author Simon & Schuster $24.5 (461p) ISBN 978-0-684-80998-4
McMurtry's bittersweet 19th novel marks the welcome return of Harmony, the naively optimistic showgirl from The Desert Rose (1983). Now 47, Harmony is working in a Las Vegas recycling plant, retired from her reign as the most beautiful showgirl ever
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Larry McMurtry, Author Puffin Books $19.95 (148p) ISBN 978-0-670-88234-2
Deceptively brief and seemingly lightweight, this wonderful work effectively cuts through decades of hyperbole. McMurtry illuminates the enigma and the myth of Crazy Horse to present him as a man--no more, no less. He has stripped away the incessant
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Larry McMurtry, Author Simon & Schuster $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-684-85497-7
Pulitzer Prize-winning author McMurtry (Lonesome Dove) offers the final volume in the trilogy that includes the memorable The Last Picture Show (1966) and Texasville (1987). Drawing inspiration from the small Texas town where he grew up, McMurtry...
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Larry McMurtry, Author Penguin Audiobooks $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-086857-9
McMurtry's historical biography of Crazy Horse, the Sioux warrior who was a leader at the Battle of Little Big Horn, is one of two initial audio releases in the new Penguin Lives series. (The other is Marcel Proust by Edmund White, read by Barbara...
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Larry McMurtry. Norton/Liveright, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-87140-786-3
McMurtry of Lonesome Dove fame returns to fiction (after Custer) with this uneven portrayal of the frontier friendship between Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. McMurtry is a master of colorful character development and snappy dialogue, both nicely...
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Larry McMurtry, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (289p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5078-8
McMurtry's latest skips through western lore with a wry smile. Marie Antoinette "Nellie" Courtright and her brother, Jackson, bereft of family after their Virginia clan dies off one by one, arrive in Rita Blanca in 1876, in what would...
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Larry McMurtry, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3304-0
In this third volume of McMurtry's Berrybender Narratives, Lord Berrybender and his obnoxious, sniveling brood are, surprisingly, still alive on the dangerous Great Plains of Wyoming and Colorado. The wry story of mountainman adventure and...
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Larry McMurtry, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3305-7
This is the fourth and final volume in McMurtry's Berrybender Narratives (following By Sorrow's River
), a frontier epic of lusty and bloody proportions, in which, fortunately, nearly everyone is killed off. Lord Berrybender, an arrogant and
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Larry McMurtry, Author . Simon & Schuster $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3303-3
This is the second volume in McMurtry's four-book series the Berrybender Narratives, following last year's Sin Killer. Set in 1833 along the banks of the Yellowstone River, the comedic melodrama mixes unwashed mountain men with an arrogant,...
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Larry McMurtry, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5079-5
In his 28th novel, Pulitzer-winner McMurtry again displays his knack for compelling characters and plots, this time as two women of a certain age take a road trip through Texas. Sixty-year-old widow Maggie Clary hasn't felt like herself since...
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Larry McMurtry, Author Simon & Schuster $25.5 (477p) ISBN 978-0-684-80753-9
Woodrow Call and Gus McCrae, the heroes of Lonesome Dove, return in a rousing if slightly contrived yarn set decades before the events of that Pulitzer Prize-winning novel--and earlier still than the latter-day adventures of Call, detailed in...
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Larry McMurtry, Author , read by C.J. Critt. Recorded Books $34.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4193-1282-3
In this somewhat scattered narrative, 60-year-old Maggie Clary wonders if she will ever truly feel like herself again, now that she's had a hysterectomy. True, she still runs a successful company that dubs grunts and voices for low-budget...
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Larry McMurtry, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7171-4
As is McMurtry's wont in works of nonfiction (e.g., Crazy Horse
), this dual bio reads more like an extended elegy than biography. Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley, the demigods of western mythology, hold particular personal appeal for...
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Larry McMurtry, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (178p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5077-1
Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist McMurtry (Lonesome Dove
) recounts six Western frontier massacres in this meandering mixture of memoir, literary criticism, jeremiad and history. "In most cases," McMurtry acknowledges, "the only...
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Larry McMurtry, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (195p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3426-6
With less than happy results, McMurtry picks up the story of Duane Moore (Duane's Depressed
) two years after he left him alone in a remote Texas cabin, suddenly widowed and among his fractious brood. As Duane, now 64, returns from an impromptu...
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Larry McMurtry, Author , read by Alfred Molina. Simon & Schuster Audio $35 (, unabridged, six cassettes, 8 hrs., $35 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-7435-2510-7
"I'll see him in anything, " said Bob Dylan of Gregory Peck. After listening to McMurtry's latest, many listeners will say the same about hearing any audiobook read by screen and stage actor Molina. His chameleon-like talent for...
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Larry McMurtry, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (259p) ISBN 978-1-4165-8334-9
McMurtry (Lonesome Dove
) calls this “a book about my life with books.” He begins with his Texas childhood in an isolated, “totally bookless” ranch house. His life changed in 1942 when a cousin, off to enlist, gave McMurtry a
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Larry McMurtry, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5639-1
McMurtry ends the west Texas saga of Duane Moore, begun in 1966 with The Last Picture Show
, with a top-shelf blend of wit and insight, sharply defined characters and to-the-point prose. Duane, now in his late 60s, is a prosperous and retired...
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Larry McMurtry, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (175p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5993-4
In this, the second of three planned memoirs, McMurtry takes a laconic look back over a life in letters that now includes some 40 books and an equal number of screenplays. Best known for the popular movies made from his novels, including Terms of...
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Larry McMurtry, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3302-6
Part western, part satire of the English class system contrasted with rugged frontier society, the first volume of this proposed tetralogy gets off to a shaky start as McMurtry introduces the randy, bumbling Berrybender clan, a rich but inept...
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Larry McMurtry, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (640p) ISBN 978-0-671-68519-5
Here old age and death catch up with some beloved McMurtry characters familiar to readers since Terms of Endearment . Willful, tart-tongued Aurora Greenway and her outspoken maid and confidante, Rose Dunlup, sp ok? yes are in their 70s when this...
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Larry McMurtry, Author Simon & Schuster $24.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-79281-7
Those who have been waiting, through several comparatively disappointing novels, for an appropriate sequel to the memorable and Pulitzer-winning Lonesome Dove can take heart. Streets of Laredo continues that epic of the waning years of the Texas...
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Larry McMurtry, Author, Rubenstein, Editor Pocket Books $7.99 (624p) ISBN 978-0-671-79904-5
Old age and death catch up with characters familiar to readers since from Terms of Endearment in this often tedious sequel, a two-week PW bestseller and a Literary Guild/Doubleday Book Club featured alternate in cloth. (Apr.)
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Larry McMurtry, Author, Bill Grose, Editor Pocket Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-73527-2
Yearning for the excitement and good hunting of the pk Wild West, two mountain men and an old Indian scout dejectedly roam the prairie; an aging Calamity Jane composes brooding letters to her daughter; a madam closes her bordello to run a...
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Larry McMurtry, Author, William Grose, Editor Pocket Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-72213-5
At 51, fat, lonely and rich Danny Deck (from All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers ) is contacted by his 22-year-old daughter, whom he last saw on the night of her birth. PW was disappointed with McMurtry's performance: ``Full of events that defy
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Larry McMurtry, Author, Diana Ossana, With Simon & Schuster $245 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-00396-2
At first glance, McMurtry (Dead Man's Walk) and Ossana (his screenwriting partner, and collaborator on Pretty Boy Floyd) appear to be spinning a merely folksy tall tale about a battle for a woman that spirals out of control in the Cherokee territory
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Larry McMurtry, Author, Diana Ossana, With Simon & Schuster $23.5 (444p) ISBN 978-0-671-89165-7
As plain and affecting as a Woody Guthrie ballad, this re-creation of the crooked career of the Depression-era desperado/folk hero is Pulitzer Prize-winner McMurtry's (Lonesome Dove) first collaborative effort; he and screenwriter Ossana originally...
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Larry McMurtry, Author, Diana Ossana, With Pocket Books $6.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-671-89167-1
Pulitzer Prize winner McMurtry and screenwriter Ossana recreate the life of a charming St. Louis country boy who becomes a notorious bank robber during the Depression. (Aug.)
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Larry McMurtry, Author, Alfred Molina, Read by , read by Alfred Molina. Simon & Schuster Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-2788-0
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Fiction
BY SORROW'S RIVER
Larry McMurtry
, read by Alfred Molina. Simon & Schuster Audio
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Larry McMurtry, Author, Alfred Molina, Read by , read by Alfred Molina. Simon & Schuster Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-2783-5
HFans of Molina's reading of Sin Killer, the first volume in McMurtry's over-the-top Berrybender Narratives, will be pleased to find that he has lent his considerable talents to this second volume. Again, the marriage of McMurty's...
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Larry McMurtry, Author, L. McMurtry, Author . New York Review $19.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-940322-92-9
The literature and the reality of the American West collide in these 12 brilliant and wide-ranging essays, originally published in the New York Review of Books.
Pulitzer winner and bestselling novelist McMurtry (Lonesome Dove; etc.) rhapsodizes...
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