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| Lonesome Dove: A Novel by Larry McMurtry A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize— winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America. Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Categories: All Historical Fiction; All Westerns | | |
| In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas by Larry McMurtry This landmark collection, brimming with his signature wit and incomparable sensibility, is Larry McMurtry’s classic tribute to his home and his people. Before embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping the nation’s perception of the West... Today's Bargain Price: $9.60 Categories: Unknown | | |
| All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers: A Novel by Larry McMurtry A young writer hits the dusty Texas highway for the California coast in this “brilliant . . . funny and dangerously tender” ( Time ) tale of art and sacrifice. Hailed as one of “the best novels ever set in America’s fourth largest city” (Douglas Brinkley, New York Times Book Review ), All My Friends Are Going to Be... Today's Bargain Price: $8.79 Categories: Unknown | | |
| Buffalo Girls: A Novel by Larry McMurtry In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: "Martha Jane -- better known as Calamity -- is just one of the handful of aging legends who travel to London as part of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in Buffalo Girls. As he describes the insatiable curiosity of Calamity's Indian friend No Ears... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction; All Westerns | | |
| Dead Man's Walk: A Novel (Lonesome Dove Book 3) by Larry McMurtry 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 fiction: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call.As young Texas Rangers, Gus and Call have much to learn about survival in a... Today's Bargain Price: $7.12 Categories: Unknown | | |
| Moving On: A Novel by Larry McMurtry Moving On anticipates McMurtry’s Terms of Endearment and explores the emotional journey of a young woman against a sprawling metropolis in 1970s Texas. Larry McMurtry’s Moving On , his epic first novel in the acclaimed Houston series, has long been considered a defining tale of “monumental honesty” worthy of great... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
| The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry “McMurtry is an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold.” — New York Times Book ReviewThe Last Picture Show (1966) is both a rambunctious coming-of-age story and an elegy to a forlorn Texas town trying to keep its one movie house alive. Adapted into the Oscar-winning film, this masterpiece immortalizes the lives of the... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Historical Fiction; All Sex & Erotica | | |
| The Late Child: A Novel by Larry McMurtry 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, bittersweet story that unfolds on the open road, in one woman's search for strength, understanding, and hope.... Today's Bargain Price: $15.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Somebody's Darling: A Novel by Larry McMurtry The personal and professional struggles of McMurtry’s lively protagonist Jill Peel, a director in 1970s Hollywood, takes on new resonance in the twenty-first century. Forty years ago, Larry McMurtry journeyed from the sprawling ranches of his early work to the provocative Sunset Strip, creating a Hollywood fable that is both... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| Cadillac Jack: A Novel by Larry McMurtry From dusty flea markets in Texas to parties in Washington, DC, crawling with political hacks, Cadillac Jack is a classic American novel, timelier than ever. Larry McMurtry’s “big hearted” fiction has been lauded for “taking us places we hadn’t known existed” (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books ). Cadillac... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Humor | | |
| Streets Of Laredo: A Novel (Lonesome Dove Book 2) by Larry McMurtry From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry comes the sequel and final book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy. An exhilarating tale of legend and heroism, Streets of Laredo is classic Texas and Western literature at its finest.Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction; All Westerns | | |
| Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry “If Chaucer were a Texan writing today . . . this is how he would have written and this is how he would have felt.”— New York TimesIn Leaving Cheyenne (1963), which anticipates Lonesome Dove more than any other early novel, the stark realities of the American West play out in a mesmerizing love triangle. Stubborn rancher Gideon... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
| Comanche Moon: A Novel (Lonesome Dove Book 4) by Larry McMurtry THE NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe second book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy, Comache Moon takes us once again into the world of the American West.Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow Call, now in their middle years, continue to deal with the ever-increasing tensions of adult life -- Gus with his great love, Clara Forsythe, and... Today's Bargain Price: $8.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Westerns | | |
| Horseman, Passby by Larry McMurtry “Every line is poetry down and dirty in the mud, right where it belongs.” — Publishers Weekly A stunning literary debut, Horseman, Pass By (1961) exhibits the “full-blooded Western genius” ( Publishers Weekly ) that would come to define McMurtry’s incomparable sensibility. In the dusty north Texas town of Thalia, young... Today's Bargain Price: $9.85 Categories: Unknown | | |
| Telegraph Days: A Novel by Larry McMurtry From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the Old West, told in the spunky courageous voice of a young woman named Nellie Courtright.When twenty-two-year-old Nellie Courtright and her teenage brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their father’s suicide on his new and... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction; All Westerns | | |
| The Last Kind Words Saloon: A Novel by Larry McMurtry New York Times Bestseller The Last Kind Words Saloon marks the triumphant return of Larry McMurtry to the nineteenth-century West of his classic Lonesome Dove . In this "comically subversive work of fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books ), Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the American frontier... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Terms of Endearment: A Novel by Larry McMurtry In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning motion picture, Larry McMurtry created two unforgettable characters who won the hearts of readers and moviegoers everywhere: Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma.Aurora is the kind of woman who makes the whole world orbit around her, including a string of devoted suitors.... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Women's Fiction | | |
| Texasville: A Novel (Thalia Trilogy Book 2) by Larry McMurtry 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 we recognize, believe in, and care about deeply. Set in the post-oil-boom 1980s, Texasville brings us up... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Westerns | | |
| Boone's Lick: A Novel by Larry McMurtry Boone's Lick is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry's return to the kind of story that made him famous -- an enthralling tale of the nineteenth-century west. Like his bestsellers Lonesome Dove, Streets of Laredo, Comanche Moon, and Dead Man's Walk, Boone's Lick transports the reader to the era about which McMurtry writes better... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
| Duane's Depressed: A Novel (Thalia Trilogy Book 3) by Larry McMurtry 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 be going through life crises involving sex, drugs, and violence; his wife, Karla, who is... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Westerns | | |
| Rhino Ranch: A Novel (Thalia Trilogy Book 5) by Larry McMurtry • Highly acclaimed, iconic author: Larry McMurtry is renowned for his elegiac prose, sharp wit, and engaging plotlines. His Thalia, Texas, series is among his most famous and Duane is an icon as much as his creator.• The Thalia Finale: Readers have followed the life of Duane through The Last Picture Show, Texasville, Duane’s... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Westerns | | |
| Zeke and Ned by Larry McMurtry Zeke and Ned is the story of Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors -- two proud, passionate men whose remarkable quest to carve a future out of Indian Territory east of the Arkansas River after the Civil War is not only history but legend. Played out against an American West governed by a brutal brand of frontier... Today's Bargain Price: $15.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction; All Westerns | | |
| When the Light Goes: A Novel (Thalia Trilogy Book 4) by Larry McMurtry 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 beloved characters. Duane Moore first made his appearance in The Last Picture Show and, like his author, he... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Sex & Erotica | | |
| Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry Now in paperback, Larry McMurtry’s fascinating and surprisingly intimate memoir of his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare antiquarian books: “a necessary and marvelous gift” (San Antonio Express-News). • Acclaimed author: Spanning a lifetime of literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded at a wide... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs | | |
| By Sorrow's River: A Novel (Berrybender Narratives Book 3) by Larry McMurtry In this tale of high-spirited and terrifying adventure, set against the background of the West that Larry McMurtry has made his own, By Sorrow’s River is an epic in its own right, with an extraordinary young woman as its leading figure. At the heart of this third volume of his Western saga remains the beautiful and determined Tasmin... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Categories: All Historical Fiction; All Westerns | | |
| Horseman, Pass By: A Novel by Larry McMurtry From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove comes the novel that became the basis for the film Hud , starring Paul Newman. In classic Western style Larry McMurtry illustrates the timeless conflict between the modernity and the Old West through the eyes of Texas cattlemen. Horseman, Pass By tells the story of Homer... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Westerns | | |
| The Lonesome Dove Series by Larry McMurtry The timeless, bestselling four-part epic that began with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove takes readers into the lives of Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call, two tough-as-nails Texas Rangers in the heyday of the Old West.Dead Man’s WalkAs young Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call--"Gus" and "Call" for short--have... Today's Bargain Price: $36.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
| Folly and Glory: A Novel (Berrybender Narratives Book 4) by Larry McMurtry In this brilliant saga—the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives and an epic in its own right—Larry McMurtry lives up to his reputation for delivering novels with “wit, grace, and more than a hint of what might be called muscular nostalgia, fit together to create a panoramic portrait of the American West” ( The New York... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction; All Westerns | | |
| Sin Killer: The Berrybender Narratives, Book 1 by Larry McMurtry From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry comes the first in a four-volume epic journey through the early American frontier, featuring the Berrybender family, English nobility adrift in the American West in the 1830s. It is 1830, and the Berrybender family—rich, aristocratic, English, and hopelessly out of place—is on its... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Historical Fiction; All Westerns | | |
| The Wandering Hill: The Berrybender Narratives, Book 2 by Larry McMurtry Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry continues his epic four-novel telling of The Berrybender Narratives with a new adventure that is both a grand literary achievement and riveting entertainment as forged by a master wordsmith.... The indefatigable Tasmin Berrybender and her eccentric family trek on through the unexplored Wild... Today's Bargain Price: $8.54 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction; All Westerns | | |
| The Desert Rose: A Novel by Larry McMurtry Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry writes novels set in the American heartland, but his real territory is the heart itself. His gift for writing about women -- their love for reckless, hopeless men; their ability to see the good in losers; and their peculiar combination of emotional strength and sudden weakness -- makes The Desert... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Westerns | | |
| Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890 by Larry McMurtry A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
| Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Pre by Larry McMurtry The Real Western CanonLarry McMurtry, the preeminent chronicler of the American West, celebrates the best of contemporary Western short fiction, introducing a stellar collection of twenty stories that represent, in various ways, the coming-of-age of the legendary American frontier.Featuring a veritable Who's Who of the century's most... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Nonfiction; All Westerns | | |
| Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond by Larry McMurtry In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction -- as close to an autobiography as his readers are likely to get -- Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become.Using as a springboard an essay by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin that he first read in... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs | | |
| Some Can Whistle by Larry McMurtry "Mr. Deck, are you my stinkin' Daddy?" In a furious phone call from T.R., the daughter he's never met, Danny Deck gets the jolt of his life. A TV writer who's retired to his Texas mansion, Danny spends his days talking to the answering machines of his ex-lovers from New York to Paris and dreaming of the characters in the sitcom he's... Today's Bargain Price: $14.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Westerns | | |
| Crazy Horse: A Life (Penguin Lives) by Larry McMurtry Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography looks back across more than 120 years at the life and death of this great Sioux warrior who became a reluctant leader at the Battle of Little Bighorn. With his uncanny gift for... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs; All Nonfiction; All Politics, History and Current Events | | |
| Custer by Larry McMurtry In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the greatest chronicler of the American West, tackles for the first time one of the paramount figures of Western and American history. On June 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry attacked a large Lakota Cheyenne village on the Little Bighorn River in... Today's Bargain Price: $14.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs | | |
| The Evening Star: A Novel by Larry McMurtry Larry McMurtry’s Terms of Endearment touched readers in a way no other story has in recent years. The earthy humor and the powerful emotional impact that set this novel apart rise to brilliant new heights with The Evening Star . McMurtry takes us deep into the heart of Texas, and deep into the heart of one of the most memorable... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Westerns | | |
| The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of by Larry McMurtry From the early 1800s to the end of his life in 1917, Buffalo Bill Cody was as famous as anyone could be. Annie Oakley was his most celebrated protégée, the 'slip of a girl' from Ohio who could (and did) outshoot anybody to become the most celebrated star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. In this sweeping dual biography, Larry... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs; All Nonfiction; All Politics, History and Current Events | | |
| Larry McMurtry's Berrybender Narratives by Larry McMurtry Larry McMurtry's major four-volume series follows the Berrybender family—aristocratic, English, and fiercely out of place—on their journey to see the American West as it begins to open up. Sin Killer It is 1830, the dawn of a new era in America's growth, when Lord and Lady Berrybender embark on a journey up the... Today's Bargain Price: $31.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Sex & Erotica | | |
| Hollywood: A Third Memoir by Larry McMurtry "One thing I’ve always liked about Hollywood is its zip, or speed. The whole industry depends to some extent on talent spotting. The hundreds of agents, studio executives, and producers who roam the streets of the city of Los Angeles let very little in the way of talent slip by." In this final installment of the memoir trilogy that... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs; All Humor; All Nonfiction | | |
| Cadillac Jack: A Novel by Larry McMurtry In Cadillac Jack, Larry McMurtry -- Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove -- proves his unique talent for conjuring up the real, often eccentric people who inhabit the American heartland and for capturing the peculiarly American search for new frontiers and adventure. Cadillac Jack is a rodeo-cowboy-turned-antique-scout... Today's Bargain Price: $15.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Westerns | | |
| Roads: Driving America's Great Highways by Larry McMurtry As he crisscrosses America -- driving in search of the present, the past, and himself -- Larry McMurtry shares his fascination with this nation's great trails and the culture that has developed around them. Ever since he was a boy growing up in Texas only a mile from Highway 281, Larry McMurtry has felt the pull of the road. His town... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: All Politics, History and Current Events | | |
| Loop Group: A Novel by Larry McMurtry Loop Group is Larry McMurtry at his contemporary best, a novel that can best be described as Thelma and Louise meets Terms of Endearment , in which two aging ladies set out on a road trip that will take them from Hollywood to Texas, with many adventures on the way. In perhaps his finest contemporary novel since Terms of Endearment... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Women's Fiction | | |
| Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood by Larry McMurtry A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry knows his Hollywood. In Film Flam, he takes a funny, original, and penetrating look at the movie industry and gives us the truth about the moguls, fads, flops, and box-office hits. With successful movies and television miniseries made from several of his novels... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Humor; All Nonfiction | | |
| Paradise by Larry McMurtry Long considered to be the brilliant dark horse of literary nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize-winning Larry McMurtry delivers a searing and reflective exploration of what paradise is, whether it exists, and how different it is from life in his Texas hometown. In 1999, Larry McMurtry, whose wanderlust had been previously restricted to the roads... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs; All Nonfiction | | |
| Pretty Boy Floyd by Larry McMurtry The time is 1925. The place, St. Louis, Missouri. Charley Floyd, a good-looking, sweet-smiling country boy from Oklahoma, is about to rob his first armored car.Written by Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry and his writing partner, Diana Ossana, Pretty Boy Floyd traces the wild career of this legendary American folk hero, a young man so... Today's Bargain Price: $15.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Westerns | | |
| Somebody's Darling: A Novel by Larry McMurtry 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 who make them and those who play in them.Somebody's Darling is the story of the fortunes of Jill Peel. Jill is... Today's Bargain Price: $15.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Westerns | | |
| Literary Life: A Second Memoir by Larry McMurtry • A critically acclaimed memoirist: McMurtry’s nonfiction works, including his most recent memoir, Books , have received rave reviews from readers and critics alike. In this follow-up to Books , McMurtry explores the trials and triumphs of being a writer. . • Writing from the other side of the fence: Recounting moments from... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs | | |
| Thalia: A Texas Trilogy by Larry McMurtry The renaissance of Larry McMurtry, “an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold” (New York Times Book Review), continues with the publication of Thalia.Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels— Horseman, Pass... Today's Bargain Price: $16.17 Categories: Unknown | | |
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