Authors: Larry McMurtry
ISBN-13: 9780684868691, ISBN-10: 0684868695
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Date Published: July 2001
Edition: 2ND TOUCHS
Larry McMurtry worked as a cowhand on his father's Texas cattle ranch until he was 22, but never aspired to be a rancher. Instead, he published his first novel, Horseman, Pass By, when he was just 25. More than two dozen novels later, there's still more to McMurtry than a typical western.
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 Grave is 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.
A Preface | 11 | |
A Foreword | 13 | |
An Introduction: The God Abandons Texas | 17 | |
1. | Here's HUD in Your Eye | 25 |
2. | Cowboys, Movies, Myths, & Cadillacs: An Excursus on Ritual Forms in the Western Movie | 43 |
3. | Southwestern Literature? | 53 |
4. | Eros in Archer County | 79 |
5. | A Look at the Lost Frontier | 99 |
6. | The Old Soldier's Joy | 117 |
7. | Love, Death, and the Astrodome | 133 |
8. | A Handful of Roses | 143 |
9. | Take My Saddle from the Wall: A Valediction | 165 |
Bibliography | 199 |