Texasville

Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451607680

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Texasville by Larry McMurtry Pdf

With Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the unforgettable Texas town and entertaining characters from 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 to date with Duane, who's got an adoring dog, a sassy wife, a twelve-million-dollar debt, and a hot tub by the pool; Jacy, who's finished playing "Jungla" in Italian movies and who's returned to Thalia; and Sonny—Duane's teenage rival for Jacy's affections—who owns the car wash, the Kwik-Sackstore, and the video arcade. With his talent for writing lovable, eccentric characters, Texasville is one of Larry McMurtry's funniest and most touching contemporary novels.

Author : Jay Coakley,Peter Donnelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134696963

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Inside Sports by Jay Coakley,Peter Donnelly Pdf

This is a unique collection of personal stories of people involved in sport. Four main sections are covered: being introduced to sports; becoming an athlete; doing sports, and life beyond the playing field.

Author : Mark Busby
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0929398343

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Larry McMurtry and the West by Mark Busby Pdf

This is the first major single-authored book in almost twenty years to examine the life and work of Texas' foremost novelist and to develop coherent patterns of theme, structure, symbol, imagery, and influence in Larry McMurtry's work. The study focuses on the novelist's relationship to the Southwest, theorizing that his writing exhibits a deep ambivalence toward his home territory. The course of his career demonstrates shifting attitudes that have led him toward, away from, and then back again to his home place and the "cowboy god" that dominates its mythology. The book utilizes original materials from five library special collections, as well as interviews with McMurtry, his family, and his friends, such as Ken Kesey.

Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439127773

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Duane's Depressed by Larry McMurtry Pdf

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 wrestling with her own demons; and friends like Sonny, who seem to be dying, Duane can't seem to make sense of his life anymore. He gradually makes his way through a protracted end-of-life crisis of which he is finally cured by reading Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, a combination of penance, and prescription from Dr. Carmichael that somehow works. Duane's Depressed is the work of a powerful, mature artist, with a deep understanding of the human condition, a profound ability to write about small-town life, and perhaps the surest touch of any American novelist for the tangled feelings that bind and separate men and women.

Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451606584

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The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry Pdf

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a powerful coming-of-age novel set in the American West. In Thalia, Texas, Larry McMurtry epitomizes small-town America and through characters reintroduced in Texasville and Duane’s Depressed, captures the ecstasy and heartbreak of adolescence. The Last Picture Show is one of Larry McMurtry's most memorable novels, and the basis for the enormously popular movie of the same name. Set in a small, dusty, Texas town, The Last Picture Show introduced the characters of Jacy, Duane, and Sonny: teenagers stumbling toward adulthood, discovering the beguiling mysteries of sex and the even more baffling mysteries of love. Populated by a wonderful cast of eccentrics and animated by McMurtry's wry and raucous humor, The Last Picture Show is a wild, heartbreaking, and poignant novel that resonates with the magical passion of youth.

Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451606522

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Rhino Ranch by Larry McMurtry Pdf

​In his signature his elegiac prose​, Rhino Ranch finds Larry McMurtry bidding a final farewell to his multi-book hero, Duane Moore, and the rapidly changing town of Thalia, Texas. The town of Thalia, Texas has changed forever. By the end of When the Light Goes, Duane was already realizing how different his dusty old oil patch was becoming. Now, coming back from a near-fatal heart attack, it is nearly unrecognizable to him. Returning home to recover, Duane finds a new neighbor, K.K. Slater, a stubborn, tough, quirky billionairess, who also happens to have opened the Rhino Ranch—a preserve to save the black Rhino—on her property. In the midst of a world to which he no longer belongs, in a town in which the land that used to reap oil now serves as a nature preserve, he watches the world change around him and begins to reflect on love affairs past and the missed opportunities he now regrets. Rhino Ranch is a bittersweet and fitting end to this iconic series, a tribute to all of the emotion, hilarity, whimsy, and poignancy that readers have followed across decades.

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : United States
ISBN : OSU:32435030872949

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United States Censuses of Population and Housing: 1960. Census County Division Boundary Descriptions by United States. Bureau of the Census Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022637321

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United States Censuses of Population and Housing: 1960 by United States. Bureau of the Census Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Alabama
ISBN : PSU:000073227656

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United States Census of the Population and Housing, 1960 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Tonguette
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781626743755

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Peter Bogdanovich by Peter Tonguette Pdf

Before he was the Academy Award-nominated director of The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich (b. 1939) interviewed some of cinema's great masters: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, and others. Since becoming an acclaimed filmmaker himself, he has given countless interviews to the press about his own career. This volume collects thirteen of his best, most comprehensive, and most insightful interviews, many long out of print and several never before published in their entirety. They cover more than forty years of directing, with Bogdanovich talking candidly about his great triumphs, such as The Last Picture Show and What's Up, Doc?, and his overlooked gems, such as Daisy Miller and They All Laughed. Assembled by acclaimed critic Peter Tonguette, also author of a new critical biography of Bogdanovich, these interviews demonstrate that Bogdanovich is not only one of America's finest filmmakers, but also one of its most eloquent when discussing film and his own remarkable movies.

Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631493768

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Thalia: A Texas Trilogy by Larry McMurtry Pdf

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 By (1961),* Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966)— all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, McMurtry writes tragically of men and women trying to carve out an existence on the plains, where the forces of modernity challenge small- town American life. From a cattleranch rivalry that confirms McMurtry’s “full- blooded Western genius” (Publishers Weekly) to a love triangle involving a cowboy, his rancher boss and wife, and finally to the hardscrabble citizens of an oil- patch town trying to keep their only movie house alive, McMurtry captures the stark realities of the West like no one else. With a new introduction, Thalia emerges as an American classic that celebrates one of our greatest literary masters. *Just named in 2017 by Publishers Weekly the #1 Western novel worthy of rediscovery.

Author : Cybill Shepherd,Aimee Lee Ball
Publisher : Ebury Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Television actors and actresses
ISBN : 0091879035

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Cybill Disobedience by Cybill Shepherd,Aimee Lee Ball Pdf

"I DID EXACTLY AS I PLEASED, AND WHAT PLEASED ME WAS SEX. If you only ever buy one Hollywood autobiography make it this one. Sassy, shocking, funny and totally revealing this is Cybill Shepherd's unexpurgated life-story, told with the wit and honesty you'd expect from the star that's seen it all and knows it all. She has been 57 kinds of disobedient and she has never held back from doing or saying what she wants. Cybill Disobedience is a limit-breaKing, open-top car ride down Hollywood's Hall of Fame. From top model to movie siren, sex with Elvis to Bruce Willis's appeal. The Last Picture Show To Taxi Driver, the Cybil disaster and the Moonlighting phenomenon, it's all in here, every boyfriend, every affair, every good film and bad film. But most of all it's about a strong woman's determination to survive. The whole shebang - from Hollywood's mouthiest queen."

Author : Frank Miller Richey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89082343971

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Descendants of John & Margaret Beasley by Frank Miller Richey Pdf

Author : George Getschow
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781477327890

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Pastures of the Empty Page by George Getschow Pdf

A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America’s preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the course of his unparalleled literary life. When he died in 2021, Larry McMurtry was one of America’s most revered writers. The author of treasured novels such as Lonesome Dove and The Last Picture Show, and coauthor of the screenplays for Brokeback Mountain and Streets of Laredo, McMurtry created unforgettable characters and landscapes largely drawn from his life growing up on the family’s hardscrabble ranch outside his hometown of Archer City, Texas. Pastures of the Empty Page brings together fellow writers to honor the man and his impact on American letters. Paulette Jiles, Stephen Harrigan, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, and Lawrence Wright take up McMurtry’s piercing and poetic vision—an elegiac literature of place that demolished old myths of cowboy culture and created new ones. Screenwriting partner Diana Ossana reflects on their thirty-year book and screenwriting partnership; other contributors explore McMurtry’s reading habits and his passion for bookselling. And brother Charlie McMurtry shares memories of their childhood on the ranch. In contrast to his curmudgeonly persona, Larry McMurtry emerges as a trustworthy friend and supportive mentor. McMurtry was famously self-deprecating, but as his admirers attest, this self-described “minor regional writer” was an artist for the ages.

Author : Debbie Hagan
Publisher : Massachusetts School of Law
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0761828389

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Against the Tide by Debbie Hagan Pdf

Against the Tide is a carefully constructed reporting of the Massachusetts School of Law's struggle to become a fully accredited legal educational institution for minority students and/or those with limited financial resources. It is a detailed account of several legal educators' struggle to diversify legal education against corrupt personalities and politically influential establishment forces.