The Last Picture Show
Author: Larry McMurtry
This is one of McMurtry’s most memorable novels – the basis for the film of the same name. Set in a small, dusty Texas town, it introduces Jacy, Duane and Sonny, teenagers stumbling towards adulthood, discovering the beguiling mysteries of sex and the even more baffling mysteries of love…..Read More
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Leaving Cheyenne
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry comes the second novel about love and loss on the great plains of Texas. From 1920’s ranching to range cowboys… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Man Woman Relationships, Westerns
The Executioner’s Song
Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize. In what is arguably his greatest book, America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product… Continue Reading Posted in: American Writers, Biographical Fiction, Crime And Criminals, Literary Fiction, Western U.S. Biographies
Tobacco Road
The classic novel of a Georgia family undone by the Great Depression: “[A] story of force and beauty” (New York Post). Even before the Great Depression struck, Jeeter Lester and… Continue Reading Posted in: Add Narration for $3.99 or Less, Domestic Fiction, English Fiction, Families, Historical Literary Fiction
Homeland and Other Stories
Homeland and Other Stories offers comic, often heart-warming but always true to life tales told as only the author can, creating a world of love and possibility that listeners will… Continue Reading Posted in: American, Fiction, Historical Caribbean & Latin American Fiction, Historical Fiction Short Stories, Short Stories, United States
Streets of Laredo
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry comes the sequel and final book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy. An exhilarating tale of legend and heroism, Streets of Laredo is classic… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Outlaws, United States
Lonesome Dove
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize— winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest… Continue Reading Posted in: American Writers, Fathers And Sons, Historical Fiction, Teen & Young Adult Westerns, Western Stories
True Grit
Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America’s foremost writers. True Grit is the basis for two movies, the 1969 classic starring John Wayne and the Academy Award®… Continue Reading Posted in: Cowboys: Fiction, Movie Tie-In Fiction, Readers, Teen & Young Adult Classic Literature, Textbooks For Foreign Speakers
Comanche Moon
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER The second book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy, Comanche Moon takes us once again into the world of the American West. Texas Rangers August McCrae and… Continue Reading Posted in: Gus (Fictitious Character), Mccrae, Texas Rangers, Western Stories
Main Street
This is America, a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. So Sinclair Lewis, recipient of the Nobel Prize and… Continue Reading Posted in: Businessmen, Married Women, Middle Aged Men, Whispersync for Voice
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