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"Best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove and his Academy Award-winning screenplay for Brokeback Mountain, Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. In Understanding Larry McMurtry, Steven Frye considers a broad range of McMurtry's most important novels and offers detailed textual analyses of works such as Horseman, Pass By, The Last Picture Show, Moving On, and Lonesome Dove to reveal the manner in which McMurtry engages the human condition. Characters are at the heart of McMurtry's fiction, whether they are nineteenth- or twentieth-century ranchers, modern rodeo men, or women grappling with the angst and confusion of life in the suburbs of Houston. He has created characters rich in texture, such as Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call, to encourage an understanding of the persistent force of American mythology, but also to transcend type so that they emerge as quintessentially human figures grappling with circumstances beyond their control. McMurtry portrays with depth and insight the conundrums of the modern moment and its relation to heritage, and he deals as well with the intensities of the human mind as it negotiates with a complex and sometimes indifferent world. In Understanding Larry McMurtry, Frye offers a comprehensive treatment of one of the most important living authors, one who has emerged as a central figure in a rich and compelling contemporary canon."--

McMurtry, Larry --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Western stories --- History and criticism --- McMurtry, Larry --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Examinations --- History and criticism. --- McMurtry, Larry,

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Families --- Novelists, American --- McMurtry, Larry --- McMurtry, Larry --- McMurtry, Larry --- McMurtry family. --- Family. --- Homes and haunts --- Travel --- Oceania --- Texas, West --- Texas --- Description and travel. --- Social life and customs. --- Intellectual life

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Western stories --- Ambivalence in literature. --- Ambivalence in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- McMurtry, Larry --- Knowledge --- West (U.S.) --- Texas --- In literature. --- McMurtry, Larry, --- Makmertri, Larri --- Makmurtri, Lėrri --- מקמרטרי, לארי

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"Larry McMurtry is the author of dozens of novels (Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show), screenplays (Brokeback Mountain, Terms of Endearment), and essays ("Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen"), among other writings. He won the Pulitzer Prize, Oscars, and Emmys, among other honors. When he died in March 2021, he was possibly Texas's best-known and best-loved writer, an honor he famously dismissed with a t-shirt that read "minor regional novelist." George Getschow worked with McMurtry through the Archer City Writer's Workshop, an annual three-day event in McMurtry's hometown that pairs emerging and established writers. He's leveraged that network to build this collection of essays paying homage to McMurtry, only a handful of which have been previously published. The pieces in the volume pay tribute to McMurtry in a variety of ways. Stephen Graham Jones captures the thrill of seeing the legendary author prowling the stacks in his used-book store, wondering if his own books might one day be on those same shelves. Sarah Bird talks about McMurtry's "messy but mythic west" that made Texas appealing to her. Elizabeth Crook talks about how difficult it is to let go of McMurtry's characters, particularly those from Lonesome Dove, a book Geoff Dyer also found himself surprisingly unable to ignore despite everything he knew about it (it's long, slow to develop, etc.). Greg Curtis recalls McMurtry as a fellow student at Rice, and Charlie McMurtry, Larry's brother, writes about growing up with him in excerpts from his dissertation. Stephanie Elizondo Griest is enamored and perplexed by a shelf of books in McMurtry's private collection that he called his "runaways," travel accounts by 19th-century women. Diana Ossana, McMurtry's longtime screenwriting partner and one of his dearest friends, writes movingly about their friendship and many collaborations. Getschow has written an introduction that sketches the contours of McMurtry's life"--

Western stories --- History and criticism. --- McMurtry, Larry. --- McMurtry, Larry --- Friends and associates. --- Characters. --- Mythic West, Horsemen, Brokeback Mountain, Pass By, Lonesome Dove, Gus, Call, Walter Benjamin, Archer City Writer's Workshop, Saddle on the Wall, Leaving Cheyenne, All My Friends, Last Picture Show, Narrow Grave, The Moby-Dick of the Plains, essays.