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Author:
Larry McMurtry
Reader: William Dufris
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Lonesome Dove) shares his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare books. He writes of discovering books and his love affair with literature – and he offers a lively look at the other eccentrics who surround themselves with rare books. "Dufris's tones are light and conversational... His full-bodied performance makes this a satisfying listen."—Booklist
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Publish Date: 07/15/2008
ISBN: 9781400108053
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Despite having written almost 30 novels and being both a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Larry McMurtry has always considered himself a book collector above all. His evocative new memoir, full of the breezy Texas ambience of his fiction, explores the reasons for this distinction. It details his adventures as an avid book man, and recounts with gentle humor the strange characters and rich experiences he has encountered in his life of book-chasing. Told through 109 short chapters, BOOKS: A MEMOIR effortlessly blends reflections on the oscillating prices of rare editions with McMurtry's writing habits, influences, and early-born passion for all things literary. Fans of McMurtry's fiction or readers interested in book collecting will find plenty of charming anecdotes to savor in this volume.
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Author Bio:
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The son of a cattle rancher, Larry McMurtry spent most of his childhood on horseback under the vast, blue sky of the Texas Panhandle. In 1958, he received a B.A. from North Texas State University and in 1960 an M.A. from Rice University. In 1959, McMurtry married Josephine Ballard. They had a son, James Lawrence McMurtry, and were divorced in 1966. McMurtry won a Stegner Fellowship to do graduate work at Stanford University, and then taught creative writing at Rice. His first book, HORSEMAN, PASS BY, was published in 1961 and was immediately hailed as the first great novel to depict the conflict between the Old West and the New West. This tale of an old-time cattleman and his unscrupulous stepson (made into the movie HUD) began what would become a string of literary and commercial successes for McMurtry. Many of his books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning LONESOME DOVE, have achieved best-seller status, and several more, including BUFFALO GIRLS, TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, and THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, have been adapted for film. The major theme of most of his literary work is disillusionment with the myth of the West. McMurtry is also a well-known antiquarian bookseller (and collector), who has turned his Texas home town into an important center for used and rare books.
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