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Larry McMurtry

Larry Jeff McMurtry was an American novelist, screenwriter, essayist, and antiquarian bibliophile from Texas best known for his Lonesome Dove book series. The eldest of four children, McMurtry grew up on his grandparents' ranch before moving to Archer City so that he and his siblings could more easily attend school. McMurtry loved reading despite the fact that in his early years, the only book in the household was a Bible. When a cousin left to fight in World War II, he gifted McMurtry a box...

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Larry McMurtry Essays

Living and Dying By the Code of the West - Personality Counts Jill Glissmann

Lonesome Dove

Most novelists do not kill off half of the characters in their book to prove a point, but this one does. The tragic, bloody deaths in the novel only enforce the fact that the West was wild and could not be conquered by any one human, no matter how...