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"A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Daugherty. In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains' keenest witness since Willa Cather and Wallace Stegner. Larry McMurtry: A Life traces his origins as one of the last American writers...
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Larry McMurtry is known to be reclusive and extremely private, rarely giving interviews or making public appearances. Audiences are therefore sure to be eager to read this intimate and surprisingly personal memoir of the brilliant writer's love affair with books. McMurtry writes about his life as a boy growing up in a largely bookless world; as a young man devouring the world of literature; as a fledgling writer and family man; and as one of America's
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Documentary detailing the making of Peter Bogdanovich's films The Last picture show (1971) and Texasville (1990). Follows Bogdanovich to Archer City, Texas where both films were shot and includes interviews with him, Larry McMurtry whose two novels the films were based on, citizens of Archer City ... [et al.]. Includes clips from both films featuring Cybil Shepherd and Jeff Bridges.