1. Target
  2. Movies, Music & Books
  3. Books
  4. Non-Fiction

Literary Life - by Larry McMurtry (Paperback)

Literary Life - by  Larry McMurtry (Paperback)
Store: Target
Last Price: 13.79 USD

Similar Products

Product info

<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry follows up his memoir <i>Books </i>with this engrossing and deeply personal reflection on the life of a writer. </b> <p/>Larry McMurtry is that rarest of artists, a prolific and genre-transcending writer who has delighted generations with his witty and elegant prose. In <i>Literary Life</i>, the sequel to<i> Books</i>, he expounds on the private trials and triumphs of being a writer. From his earliest inkling of his future career while at Rice University, to his tenure as a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford with Ken Kesey in 1960, to his incredible triumphs as a bestselling author, this intimate and charming autobiography is replete with literary anecdotes and packed with memorable observations about writing, writers, and the author himself. It is a work to be cherished not only by McMurtry's admirers, but by the innumerable aspiring writers who seek to make their own mark on American literature.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A master reflects on the joy of writing . . . An invitation into the working writer's head." --<i>The Boston Globe</i><br><br>"A rambling, shambling, and ambling autobiography." --John Barron, <i>Chicago Sun-Times</i><br><br>"Entertaining and enlightening." --David Hendricks, <i>San Antonio Express-News</i><br><br>"Mr. McMurtry is an outsider with insider stories and connections. . . . Strewn through this book's loose narrative are stories about things like eating chicken gizzards and attending a stock car race in Texas with Susan Sontag. . . . The book is also, happily, filled with his literary enthusiasms." --Dwight Garner, <i>New York Times</i><br><br>"The master of the showstopping anecdote." --Kristy Davis, <i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Larry McMurtry (1936-2021) was the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>Lonesome Dove</i>, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lived in Archer City, Texas.

Price History

Cheapest price in the interval: 13.79 on October 28, 2021

Most expensive price in the interval: 13.79 on February 5, 2022