Books - by Larry McMurtry (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this work of extraordinary charm and good humor, McMurtry recounts his life as both a reader and a writer, how the countless books he has read worked to form his literary tastes, while giving readers a lively look at the eccentrics who collect, sell, or simply lust after rare volumes.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b> Larry McMurtry's fascinating and surprisingly intimate memoir of his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare antiquarian books is "a necessary and marvelous gift" (<i>San Antonio Express-News</i>).</b> <p/>Spanning a lifetime of literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded at a wide variety of genres, from coming-of-age novels, such as <i>The Last Picture Show</i>; to essays, like those in <i>In a Narrow Grave</i>;<i> </i>to the reinvention of the "Western" on a grand scale like the Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>Lonesome Dove</i>. Here at last is the private McMurtry writing about himself 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 above all as one of America's most prominent "bookmen." He brings the reader along on his journeys to becoming an astute and adventurous collector who would eventually open book stores of rare and collectible books in Georgetown, Houston, and finally in his previously "bookless" hometown of Archer City, Texas. <p/> Reading <i>Books</i> is like reading the best kind of diary--full of wonderful anecdotes, amazing characters, spicy gossip, and shrewd observations. Like its author, <i>Books</i> is erudite, full of life, and full of great stories. Yet the most curious tale of all is the amazing transformation of a reluctant young cowboy into a world-class literary figure who has spent his life not only writing books, but rounding them up the way he once rounded up cattle. At once chatty, revealing, and deeply satisfying, <i>Books</i> is Larry McMurtry at his best.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-eight novels, two collections of essays, three memoirs, and more than thirty screenplays, including the coauthorship of Brokeback Mountain, for which he received an Academy Award. He lives in Archer City, Texas.
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