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Paperback Books by Larry McMurtry
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| When the Light Goes |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| In this masterful and often surprising sequel to the acclaimed Duane's Depressed, the Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author of Lonesome Dove has written a haunting, elegiac, and occasionally erotic novel about one of his most... Read More |
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| Publication Date: March 2008 |
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| Telegraph Days |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| Larry McMurtry, of LONESOME DOVE fame, delivers a rollicking and zesty Western filled with historical figures and larger-than-life romance and adventure. After their father's suicide, Nellie and Jackson Courtright make their way to the... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 2007 |
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| Telegraph Days |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| Not since the publication of his own beloved classic Lonesome Dove has there been a novel like this one -- another big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the West from Larry McMurtry. Telegraph Days is at once a major work of... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 2007 |
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| Publication Date: May 2006 |
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| Crazy Horse (Lives Biographies) |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| In writing his superb life of Crazy Horse, Larry McMurtry faced the same obstacle as every previous biographer of the Oglala Sioux icon: a notable paucity of facts. This didn't inhibit such chroniclers as Mari Sandoz or Stephen Ambrose (whose... Read More |
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| Publication Date: December 2005 |
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| Loop Group |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| Anticipating the onset of her later years, Maggie leaves behind her manipulative daughters and psychoanalyst lover to accompany her best friend, Connie, for one final fling, but a series of misadventures prompts their desperate, gun-toting... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 2005 |
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| Sin Killer (Berrybender Narratives) |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| Journeying up the Missouri River in 1830, the wealthy Berrybenders encounter the challenges of the untamed American West and a variety of people, including Native Americans, pioneers, and explorers, before Tasmin Berrybender falls in love... Read More |
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| Publication Date: August 2005 |
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| Publication Date: August 2005 |
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| Publication Date: August 2005 |
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| Publication Date: March 2005 |
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| Publication Date: March 2005 |
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| Publication Date: April 2004 |
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| Publication Date: November 2003 |
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| Publication Date: April 2003 |
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| Publication Date: October 2002 |
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| Horseman, Pass By |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| This is probably the starkest, most truthful, most terrible and yet beautiful treatment of [ranching] I've seen. It will offend many, who prefer the glamour treatment--but it is a true portrait of the loneliness and pervading melancholy of... Read More |
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| Publication Date: July 2002 |
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| Paradise |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| In 1999, Larry McMurtry, whose wanderlust had been previously restricted to the roads of America, set off for a trip to the paradise of Tahiti and the South Sea Islands in an old-fashioned tub of a cruise boat, at a time when his mother was... Read More |
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| Publication Date: June 2002 |
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| Somebody's Darling |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| Pulitzer Prize-winning Larry McMurtry writes like no one else about the American frontier. In Somebody's Darling, the frontier lies farther west, in Hollywood, where his subject is the strange world of the movies -- those... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 2002 |
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| Boone's Lick |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| The Cecil family--which includes Mary Margaret, her sister Rosie, her brother-in-law Seth, her three teenaged children and a baby, and Granpa Crackenthorpe--travels from Boone's Lick, in Missouri, to a fort in Wyoming, where they hope to find... Read More |
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| Publication Date: April 2002 |
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| Cadillac Jack |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| Former rodeo rider and Texan Jack McGriff cruises from coast to coast in his Cadillac, calling up ex-wives and girlfriends in his car phone and hunting down antiques for people who want to buy them. He describes himself as a |
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| Publication Date: April 2002 |
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| The Desert Rose |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| Originally a screenplay, this story metamorphosed into a novel. McMurtry tells the tale of Harmony, a showgirl in Las Vegas who loses her job, her car, her insurance checks, her boyfriend, and her youth, but maintains her indomitable sense of... Read More |
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| Publication Date: February 2002 |
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| Anything for Billy |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| Narrated by dime novelist Ben Sippy, this novel concerns Billy the Kid. By sympathizing with Ben Sippy, readers understand the commercial mythologizing of the Old West that dime novelists did, and how the myths that perpetuated from those... Read More |
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| Publication Date: December 2001 |
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| Buffalo Girls |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| This novel represents McMurtry's version of the Calamity Jane story. The framework of this novel is a series of letters from Calamity to Janey, her daughter by Wild Bill Hickok. Buffalo Bill Cody is trying to put together Western oldtimers... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 2001 |
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| Publication Date: August 2001 |
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| Publication Date: June 2001 |
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| Streets Of Laredo |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| The final book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy is an exhilarating tale of legend and heroism. Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit.... Read More |
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| Publication Date: October 2000 |
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| Publication Date: October 2000 |
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| Duane's Depressed |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| [W]hile there is a lot that is striking and moving in 'Duane's Depressed', there is something off about it, too. One of the difficulties is the use of language, or worse, the sensibility that the language implies. |
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| Publication Date: September 1999 |
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| Duane's Depressed |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| Funny, sad, full of wonderful characters and the word-perfect dialogue of which he is the master, McMurtry brings the Thalia saga to an end with Duane confronting depression in the midst of plenty. Surrounded by his children, who all seem to... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 1999 |
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| Terms of Endearment |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| Fiercely independent and idiosyncratic, Aurora Greenway is used to the world revolving around her, but her daughter's hasty marriage and subsequent struggle with cancer cause Aurora to rethink her life. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. |
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| Publication Date: June 1999 |
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| The Evening Star |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| Aurora Greenway must come to grips with old age while those around her try to cope with such problems as an unwanted pregnancy and a prison term, in a sequel to Terms of Endearment. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. |
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| Publication Date: June 1999 |
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| TEXASVILLE |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| With Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the unforgettable Texas town and characters of one of his best-loved books, The Last Picture Show. This is a Texas-sized story brimming with home truths of the heart, and men and women... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 1999 |
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| Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove) |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| Set in the time span between the end of DEAD MAN'S WALK and the beginning of LONESOME DOVE, this novel chronicles the life of Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call as they fight the Comanche wars. Winner of the 1997 Spur Award for Best Novel of the... Read More |
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| Publication Date: June 1998 |
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| Zeke and Ned |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| Tells the story of the last Cherokee warriors through the adventures of two proud and passionate men, Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, on a remarkable quest to carve a future out of wild Oklahoma Territory after the Civil War. Reprint. AB. |
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| Publication Date: October 1997 |
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| Zeke and Ned |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| Zeke Proctor and Ned Christie, two Cherokee warriors, live in the Going Snake area of eastern Oklahoma. While they try to maintain their Indian heritage, the U.S. government is intent on imposing its justice on the Cherokee nation--and on... Read More |
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| Publication Date: October 1997 |
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| The Late Child |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| ...I truly believe some cowboys understand and like women better than most men do. One cowboy in particular, Larry McMurtry....McMurtry writes as insightfully about bright, passionate, confused, frustrated women as anybody has, even other... Read More |
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| Publication Date: December 1996 |
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| The Late Child |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| An unforgettable addition to his widely acclaimed body of work, The Late Child is Larry McMurtry's tender, funny, and poignant sequel to The Desert Rose. McMurtry delivers another rich cast of characters -- and a heartfelt,... Read More |
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| Publication Date: December 1996 |
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| The Evening Star |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| Aurora Greenway is in her 70s. She has raised her daughter's children: Tommie is serving time for killing his girlfriend, Teddy is mentally unstable and married to an unfaithful, bisexual wife, and Melanie is pregnant and doesn't know who the... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 1996 |
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| Dead Man's Walk |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| ...[I]t is a satisfactory foothill, with the grand old mountain in view....McMurtry has a fine time with youthful damnfoolishness, and so does the reader. The young Rangers are randy and daft, and ...coltish around women.... |
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| Publication Date: May 1996 |
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| Dead Man's Walk |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| Dead Man's Walk is the first, extraordinary book in the epic Lonesome Dove tetralogy, in which Larry McMurtry breathed new life into the vanished American West and created two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 1996 |
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| Moving On |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| Moving On is a big, powerful novel about men and women in the American West. Set in the 1960s against the backdrop of the honky-tonk glamour of the rodeo and the desperation of suburban Houston, it is the story of the restless and... Read More |
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| Publication Date: April 1996 |
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| Moving On |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| Moving On is a big, powerful novel about men and women in the American West. Set in the 1960s against the backdrop of the honky-tonk glamour of the rodeo and the desperation of suburban Houston, it is the story of the restless and... Read More |
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| Publication Date: April 1996 |
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| Pretty Boy Floyd |
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| by Larry McMurtry |
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| A fictional account of lost innocence follows the exploits of bank robber Charley "Pretty Boy" Floyd, from his first robbery of an armored car in 1925 St. Louis through his final confrontation with the G-men. Reprint. |
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| Publication Date: August 1995 |
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| Publication Date: August 1995 |
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