| International Standard Book Number |
9780063234901
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780063234888
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813.54 B 23/eng/20251203
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| Personal Name |
Streitfeld, David author
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| Title Statement |
Western star : the life and legends of Larry McMurtry / David Streitfeld.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Publisher |
New York : Mariner Books, [2026]
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| Physical Description |
volumes cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Larry McMurtry for Sale -- Ancestors -- Native Connections -- The Making of Lonesome Dove, Part One -- Mom & Dad -- On the Ranch -- Welcome to North Central Texas -- Birth of a Storyteller -- College Days -- Rice Again -- Introducing the 1960s -- Hud -- The Sorrows of Sex -- Visitors -- A New Love -- The Last Picture Show: The Novel -- The Director -- The Last Picture Show: The Movie -- The Scandal of Success -- The Making of Lonesome Dove, Part Two -- Steve Friedman Tries Again -- Two Texas Writers -- Friends and Films -- The Making of Lonesome Dove, Part Three -- Fame and Its Discontents -- The Bookstore on the Plains -- Mom -- Brokeback Begins -- Making Brokeback -- Last Chapters
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Before Larry McMurtry became one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century, he worked on his family's ranch in rural Texas. He spent his days on horseback and his nights listening to vivid stories of his cowboy uncles driving herds of cattle across the plains where there once were bison and Native Americans. "McMurtry Means Beef," as one ranching magazine put it. By the time he died in 2021, McMurtry had published forty books, won a Pulitzer for Lonesome Dove and an Oscar for his cowritten adaptation of Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain, and seen his work made into such classic films as Hud and Terms of Endearment. Now, McMurtry means great stories. For all his fame, McMurtry was an elusive figure. He loved women but was married to his typewriter; he was wary of critics and distrustful of other men-except David Streitfeld. When McMurtry gave the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist the keys to his past, Streitfeld dug into every archive and interviewed everyone who would talk. He found that, even as McMurtry's work criticized the old cowboy myths, he loved making up stories about himself. WESTERN STAR reveals the real and complicated life of a storyteller who was both an icon and critic of Texas, the favorite of presidents, confidant to movie stars like Diane Keaton and Cybill Shepherd, friend to Ken Kesey and husband to his widow Faye, an obsessive bookseller, and the most enduring voice of the American West"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
McMurtry, Larry
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| Subject-Personal Name |
McMurtry, Larry Childhood and youth
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Novelists, American Biography 20th century
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Screenwriters Biography United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Texas Biography
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| Additional Physical Form Entry |
Streitfeld, David First edition New York : Mariner Books, [2026] Western star (DLC) 2025049077 9780063234901
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