In a Narrow Grave Essays on Texas

Name: In a Narrow Grave Essays on Texas
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ISBN: 9780684868691

ISBN-10: 0684868695

ISBN-13: 9780684868691

Edition: 2nd 2001

Authors: Larry McMurtry

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Writing with characteristic grace and wit, Larry McMurtry tackles the full spectrum of his favorite themes -- from sex, literature, and cowboys to rodeos, small-town folk, and big-city slickers. First published in 1968,In a Narrow Graveis the classic statement of what it means to come from Texas. In these essays, McMurtry opens a window into the past and present of America's largest state. In his own words: "Before I was out of high school, I realized I was witnessing the dying of a way of life -- the rural, pastoral way of life. In the Southwest the best energies were no longer to be found on the homeplace, or in the small towns; the cities required these energies and the cities bought…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 7/17/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Larry McMurtry, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other awards, is the author of twenty-four novels, two collections of essays, two memoirs, more than thirty screenplays, & an anthology of modern Western fiction. He lives in Archer City, Texas.



A Preface


A Foreword


An Introduction: The God Abandons Texas



Here's HUD in Your Eye



Cowboys, Movies, Myths, and Cadillacs: An Excursus on Ritual Forms in the Western Movie



Southwestern Literature?



Eros in Archer County



A Look at the Lost Frontier



The Old Soldier's Joy



Love, Death, and the Astrodome



A Handful of Roses



Take My Saddle from the Wall: A Valediction


Bibliography