Authors: Larry McMurtry
ISBN-13: 9780684868837, ISBN-10: 0684868830
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Date Published: June 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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.
The Real Western Canon
Larry 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 distinctive writers, this collection effectively departs from the standard superstars of the Western genre. McMurtry has chosen a refreshing range of work that, when taken as a whole, depicts the evolution and maturation of Western writing over several decades. The featured tales are not so concerned with the American West of history and geography as they are with the American West of the imagination one that is alternately comic, gritty, individual, searing, and complex.
Contributors
Wallace Stegner * Dave Hickey * Dao Strom * Dagoberto Gilb * William Hauptman * Jack Kerouac * Ron Hansen * Diana Ossana * Robert Boswell * Tom McGuane Louise Erdrich * Max Apple * Mark Jude Poirier * Rick Bass * Jon Billman * Richard Ford * Raymond Carver * Annie Proulx * Leslie Marmon Silko * William H. Gass
No, not Louis L'Amour, but 20 tales of the West from the likes of Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Jack Kerouac. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\
Introduction | 11 | |
Buglesong | 17 | |
The Closed Season | 26 | |
Chickens | 44 | |
Romero's Shirt | 65 | |
Good Rockin' Tonight | 73 | |
The Mexican Girl | 99 | |
True Romance | 124 | |
White Line Fever | 135 | |
Glissando | 157 | |
Dogs | 178 | |
The Red Convertible | 184 | |
Gas Stations | 196 | |
Cul-de-sacs | 203 | |
Mabatma Joe | 219 | |
Indians | 254 | |
Rock Springs | 267 |