Author: Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning novel is a powerful, triumphant portrayal of the American West as it really was. From Texas to Montana, it ...

Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three n...

Taking you deep into the heart of the American West, Dead Man's Walk is the first book in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove quartet.These are the wild...

The 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 ali...

This is Larry McMurtry's ballad in prose: his heartfelt tribute to a bygone era of the American West.Larry McMurtry has done more than any other li...

In this comically subversive work of fiction (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books), Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the American f...

Larry McMurtrys big hearted fiction has been lauded for taking us places we hadnt known existed (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books). Cadi...

Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West. With The Last Kind Words Saloon h...

The final novel in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove quartet, Streets of Laredo is an exhilarating and achingly poignant tale of heroism and friendshi...

The second book in the Lonesome Dove quartet, Comanche Moon, which follows on from Dead Man's Walk, follows ranchers Gus and Call in their bitter s...

Sam the Lion runs the pool-hall, the picture house and the all-night café. Coach Popper whips his boys with towels and once took a shot at one when...

A stunning literary debut, Horseman, Pass By (1961) exhibits the full-blooded Western genius (Publishers Weekly) that would come to define McMurtry...

Larry McMurtrys Moving On, his epic first novel in the acclaimed Houston series, has long been considered a defining tale of monumental honesty wor...

Forty years ago, Larry McMurtry journeyed from the sprawling ranches of his early work to the provocative Sunset Strip, creating a Hollywood fable ...

Before embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping the ...

In Leaving Cheyenne (1963), which anticipates Lonesome Dove more than any other early novel, the stark realities of the American West play out in a...