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Una distesa insieme maestosa e spietata, dove né il viaggiatore ben armato né il bisonte più robusto sanno per certo se arriveranno a sera: ecco l'Ovest americano alla metà dell'Ottocento. Gus e Call – l'avventato e il giudizioso, il fanfarone e il taciturno, il donnaiolo e il riluttante – sono come il giorno e la notte, ma hanno una cosa in comune: tanta voglia di avventura. Perché, allora, no...

Capricciosa, dispotica e tranchant: così è Aurora Greenway, vedova quarantanovenne di Houston, in Texas. In compenso ha capelli stupendi e un corpo che mantiene sodo cucinando in modo sopraffino e mangiando di gusto. Gli spasimanti, quindi, non le mancano, ma come scegliere tra il vicepresidente di banca impacciato, la vecchia fiamma sentimentale e il vicino che la spia con il binocolo, quando lei stessa sa che «solo un ...

The "prequel" to "Comanche Moon, " depicting the adventures of Woodrow McCall and Gus McCrae as young men adrift in the Old West.

From the early 1800s to the end of his life in 1917, Buffalo Bill Cody was as famous as anyone could be. Annie Oakley was his most celebrated protegee, the slip of a girl from Ohio who could (and did) outshoot anybody to become the most celebrated star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. In this sweeping dual biography, Larry McMurtry explores the lives, the legends, and above all the truth about two larger-than-life American figures. With his W...

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From the early 1800s to the end of his life in 1917, Buffalo Bill Cody was as famous as anyone could be. Annie Oakley was his most celebrated protegee, the slip of a girl from Ohio who could (and did) outshoot anybody to become the most celebrated star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. In this sweeping dual biography, Larry McMurtry explores the lives, the legends, and above all the truth about two larger-than-life American figures. With his W...

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Sad and sweet yet rigorously unsentimental. Mr McMurtry has the power to clutch the heart and also somehow to exhilarate' New YorkerBittersweet, funny and touching, The Desert Rose is the story of Harmony, a Las Vegas showgirl. At night she's a lead dancer in a casino, during the day she raises peacocks. She's one of a dying breed of dancers, faced with fewer and fewer jobs and an even bleaker future. But while her star is fading, her beautifu...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the Old West, told in the spunky courageous voice of a young woman named Nellie Courtright.When twenty-two-year-old Nellie Courtright and her teenage brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their father's suicide on his new and unprosperous ranch, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca, where Jackson manages to secure a job...

Larry McMurtry's "big hearted" fiction has been lauded for "taking us places we hadn't known existed" (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books). Cadillac Jack does exactly that, inviting readers into the passenger seat of a pearl-colored Caddy with peach velour-covered seats, joining a rodeo-bulldogger-turned-antique- scout at the wheel. "Superbly comic" (Newsday), this rollicking tale echoes the cultural climate of America today, with the...

Larry McMurtry's Moving On, his epic first novel in the acclaimed Houston series, has long been considered a defining tale of "monumental honesty" worthy of great attention (New York Times). Preceding Terms of Endearment by five years, it is essential reading for anyone who appreciates the inherent genius of McMurtry's late twentieth-century fiction. Moving On centers on the life of Patsy Carpenter, one of his most beloved characters. After ca...

Hailed as one of "the best novels ever set in America's fourth largest city" (Douglas Brinkley, New York Times Book Review), All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers is a powerful demonstration of Larry McMurtry's "comic genius, his ability to render a sense of landscape, and interior intellection tension" (Jim Harrison, New York Times Book Review). Desperate to break from the "mundane happiness" of Houston, budding writer Danny Deck hops in h...

Before embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping the nation's perception of the West, Larry McMurtry knew what it meant to come from Texas. Originally published in 1968, In a Narrow Grave is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's homage to the past and present of the Lone Star State, where he grew up a precociously observant hand on his father's ranch. F...

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Ein kleines staubiges Nest in Texas 1951. Seit Jahren steht hier die Zeit still. Sam "der Löwe" (Ben Johnson), Ex-Cowboy und Besitzer des einzigen Kinos am Ort, ist für Duane (Jeff Bridges) und Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) ein Idol und väterlicher Freund zugleich. Nachdem Duane und Jacy (Cybill Shepherd), das schönste Mädchen der High School, eine nicht sehr erfolgreiche Nacht im Motel verbringen, wendet sie sich einem älteren College-Jungen zu, un...

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Il primo romanzo di Larry McMurtry, da cui fu tratto l'omonimo film di Martin Ritt con Paul Newman. Con la sua scrittura asciutta e sicura, Mc Murtry descrive il conflitto tra il vecchio West e una nuova generazione materialista e priva di scrupoli. Homer Bannon, anziano allevatore di bestiame che incarna i nobili principi della Frontiera, si scontra con l'arroganza del figliastro Hud. Ad accompagnare il lettore è la voce del giovane nipote Lo...