Larry McMurtry
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A comedy on a man's belated mid-life crisis at the age of 62. It strikes Texas oil tycoon Duane Moore and not even his wife of 40 years can figure out what caused it. That task is left to a pretty psychiatrist. By the author of The Last Picture Show.
29) Crazy Horse
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1999
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IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
31) Books: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Description
In a prolific life of singular literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded in a variety of genres: in coming-of-age novels like The Last Picture Show; in collections of essays like In a Narrow Grave; and in the reinvention of the Western on a grand scale in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove. Now, in Books: A Memoir, McMurtry writes about his endless passion for books: as a boy growing up in a largely "bookless" world; as a young...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Description
A widow with a small army of suitors, Aurora Greenway loves the limelight. She's got three grandchildren whom she adores (in small doses) and her son-in-law Flap, whom she's not really crazy about. And there's her daughter Emma. In some ways, Emma is all there ever was. Now, there's little time left to say the things that need to be said.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry follows up Books and Literary Life with this final installment in his memoir trilogy. Tinged with his wry humor and Texas swagger, Hollywood is McMurtry's anecdote-filled take on Tinseltown from the year his Horseman, Pass By was adapted into Hud (1963) to the year he wrote the screenplay for the Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain (2005).
Author
Series
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press
Pub. Date
c1985
Description
Horseman, Pass By is a post-World War II classic first published in 1961 and later made into a feature film. Cattleman Homer Bannon is a walking advertisement for traditional, old-frontier morals-in contrast to his stepson, Hud. Homer's grandson Lonnie is torn between emotions for his father and grandfather as he struggles to define his own identity.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Description
The series: " ... revolves around the life and times of Newt Call, the young cowhand who started out as a boy in Lonesome Dove and now goes on to make his way in the world"--Container.
The outlaw years: "Newt Call has returned to Curtis Wells from living on the trail the past two years as a bounty hunter"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"Retired Texas Ranger Captain Woodrow Call has become a bounty hunter, hired for one last hunt for a psychopathic 17-year-old killer. Joining him on the hunt is his one-time corporal, Pea Eye Parker. Pea Eye's wife Lorena sets out after her husband to convince him to come home after she learns that the murderous Indian Mox Mox is on the rampage and looking for someone new to burn alive"--ViaVision.com.au.