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Hailed by "USA Today" as "one of McMurtry's best, " this chronicle of Billy the Kid follows the wild adventures of the West's most famous outlaw as he rides, romances, and shoots his way into the heart of American mythology.

Long considered to be the brilliant dark horse of literary nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize-winning Larry McMurtry delivers a searing and reflective exploration of what paradise is, whether it exists, and how different it is from life in his Texas hometown.In 1999, Larry McMurtry, whose wanderlust had been previously restricted to the roads of America, set off for a trip to the paradise of Tahiti and the South Sea Islands in an old-fashioned tub of ...

One thing I've always liked about Hollywood is its zip, or speed. The whole industry depends to some extent on talent spotting. The hundreds of agents, studio executives, and producers who roam the streets of the city of Los Angeles let very little in the way of talent slip by."In this final installment of the memoir trilogy that includes Books and Literary Life, Larry McMurtry, "the master of the show-stopping anecdote" (O, The Oprah Magazine...

Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936) is an American essayist, bookseller, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter, who wrote the screenplay of Brokeback Mountain. He has published 21 novels, and also operates antiquarian bookshops in Washington DC, Texas and Arizona.Mary Karr (born January 16, 1955) is an American poet, essayist and memoirist. She rose to fame in 1995 with the publication of her bestselling memoir The Liars' Club. She is the Peck...

McMurtry takes his famous characters into their twilight years in an end to the Thalia saga. Duane finds himself in a protracted end-of-life crisis, one that will hurtle him toward unexpected love, profoundly affect old friends, and cause him to embark on an outlandish new beginning.

My foot's in the stirrup, My pony won't stand, Goodbye, old partner, I'm leaving Cheyenne. -- Old cowboy song "Leaving Cheyenne, " Larry McMurtry's second novel, traces the loves of three West Texas characters as they follow that sundown trail: Gideon Fry, the serious rancher, Johnny McCloud, the free-spirited cowhand, and Molly Taylor, the sensitive woman they both love and who bears them each a son. Tragic circumstances mark the trail b...

McMurtry's new novel--the first of a major four-volume work--features one of his most memorable heroines since the unforgettable Jacy in "The Last Picture Show." This is McMurtry at his best, in a big, dramatic, fully realized western epic. Abridged. 7 CDs.

An unforgettable addition to his widely acclaimed body of work, "The Late Child" is Larry McMurtry's tender, funny, and poignant sequel to "The Desert Rose." McMurtry delivers another rich cast of characters -- and a heartfelt, bittersweet story that unfolds on the open road, in one woman's search for strength, understanding, and hope. Harmony is the optimistic, resilient Las Vegas ex-showgirl who returns home one day to the news that her belo...

Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry writes novels set in the American heartland, but his real territory is the heart itself. His gift for writing about women -- their love for reckless, hopeless men, their ability to see the good in losers, and their peculiar combination of emotional strength and sudden weakness -- makes "The Desert Rose" the bittersweet, funny, and touching book that it is.Harmony is a Las Vegas showgirl. At night she's a le...

In a brilliant work of nonfiction--as close to an autobiography as his readers are likely to get--Larry McMurtry paints a clever but revealing self-portrait as he chronicles the story of his family and the larger story of Texas itself.

The brilliant sequel to The Last Picture Show is McMurtry's richest novel to date, as moving as Terms of Endearment and as full of real and memorable characters as Lonesome Dove. "Texasville crackles with energy, humor and passion".--Washington Post Book World.

Moving On" is a big, powerful novel about men and women in the American West. Set in the 1960s against the backdrop of the honky-tonk glamour of the rodeo and the desperation of suburban Houston, it is the story of the restless and lovable Patsy Carpenter, one of Larry McMurtry's most unforgettable characters. Patsy -- young, beautiful, with a sharp tongue and an irresistible charm -- and her shiftless husband, Jim, are adrift in the West. Pat...

With his characteristic flare, McMurtry tackles the full spectrum of his favorite subjects--sex, literature, cowboys, rodeos, small-town life and big-city slickers.

McMurtry has been to Hollywood and back--here he takes a funny and penetrating look at the movie industry and uncovers the truth about the moguls, fads, flops and box-office busters.

Larry McMurtry's "Terms of Endearment" touched readers in a way no other story has in recent years. The earthy humor and the powerful emotional impact that set this novel apart rise to brilliant new heights with "The Evening Star." McMurtry takes us deep into the heart of Texas, and deep into the heart of one of the most memorable characters of our time, Aurora Greenway -- along with her family, friends, and lovers -- in a tale of affectionat...

The Pulitzer Prize winning novel - a story of love, honour, loyalty and betrayal

Returning to the themes that have made him famous and beloved, the author of "Lonesome Dove"--and the voice of the American West--recreates the days of the old gunfighters in a panoramic, sweeping audiobook. Unabridged. 8 CDs.

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Larry McMurtry triumphantly returns with this ballad in prose: a heartfelt tribute to the people and places of the bygone American West, from a writer who has done more than any other to shape our image of the period. In The Last Kind Words Saloon, McMurtry paints a vivid and unsparing portrait of the nineteenth-century and the cowboy lifestyle, made so memorable in his Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Lonesome Dove. Long Grass, Texas. Once hail...

On the wild Texas frontier where barbarism and civilization come in many forms, Rangers Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call are pitched into the long, bitter, bloody fighting under the command of Captain Inish Scull. When Scull's favourite horse is stolen by the Comanches, he decides to track him down, leaving Gus and Call in charge. However, on their return to Austin, Gus is greeted by the news that his sweetheart is to marry another man and Call fin...