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ANYTHING FOR BILLY (THE KID) - A NOVEL
McMurtry, Larry
02871824 Hard Cover. As New/As New Book Jacket. First Edition. Out of Print. 6 x 9". Anything for Billy by Larry McMurtry. "The first time I saw Billy he came walking out of a cloud.. Welcome to the wild, hot-blooded adventures of Billy the Kid, the American West's most legendary outlaw. Larry McMurtry takes us on a hell-for-leather journey with Billy and his friends as they ride, drink, love, flight, shoot and escaped their way into the shining memories of western myth. Surrounded by a splendid cast of characters that only Larry McMurtry could creat, Billy charges headlong toward his fate, to become in death the unforgettable desperado he aspires to be in life. We offer many Larry McMurtry novels at this site -- ALL are AS brand-new, hardcover w/book jackets and are priced up to 50% off issue price! Anything for Billy PUBLISHED in 1988 at Nineteen dollars. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1988
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Books: A Memoir
McMurtry, Larry
2008 10000519 In a prolific life of singular literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded in a variety of genres: in coming-of-age novels like The Last Picture Show; in collections of essays like In a Narrow Grave; and in the reinvention of the Western on a grand scale in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove. B> Now, in' Books: A Memoir,' McMurtry writes about his endless passion for books: as a boy growing up in a largely "bookless" world; as a young man devouring the vastness of literature with astonishing energy; as a fledgling writer and family man; and above all, as one of America's most prominent bookmen. He takes us on his journey to becoming an astute, adventurous book scout and collector who would eventually open stores of rare and collectible editions in Georgetown, Houston, and finally, in his previously "bookless" hometown of Archer City, Texas. In this work of extraordinary charm, grace, and good humor, McMurtry recounts his life as both a reader and a writer, how the countless books he has read worked to form his literary tastes, while giving us a lively look at the eccentrics who collect, sell, or simply lust after rare volumes. Books: A Memoir is like the best kind of diary - full of McMurtry's wonderful anecdotes, amazing characters, engaging gossip, and shrewd observations about authors, book people, literature, and the author himself. At once chatty, revealing, and deeply satisfying, Books is, like McMurtry, erudite, life loving, and filled with excellent stories. It is a book to be savored and enjoyed again and again. Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group 1416583343 / 9781416583349
Hardcover As New Condition New York
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Loop Group (A Novel)
McMurtry, Larry
2004 53426 In his 28th novel, Pulitzer-winner McMurtry again displays his knack for compelling characters and plots, this time as two women of a certain age take a road trip through Texas. Sixty-year-old widow Maggie Clary hasn't felt like herself since her hysterectomy; though her Hollywood company, Prime Loops, is doing well--they dub in the grunts and groans for movie soundtracks--she secretly wonders if she's going "bats." Maggie's three well-intentioned daughters have appeared on her doorstep for a Sunday morning "intervention." Though Maggie's diminutive Sicilian psychiatrist has improved her mood (thanks, in part, to their mid-session sex), she decides to follows the advice of a flirtatious waiter and try a change of scenery. Maggie invites fellow "looper" and best friend Connie (the two have been inseparable--and boy crazy--since they were 14), to join her on a drive to her octogenarian Aunt Cooney's Texas chicken ranch. Despite family troubles that threaten to sabotage their trip, the two stay the course on a road rife with reprobates, from a relentless "professional" hitchhiker to a mild-mannered car thief forever violating his parole. Aunt Cooney's brief appearance is among the high points of McMurtry's life-affirming tale: sporting an "old mashed-up" cowboy hat and an abundance of rouge, the gregarious granny greets her city slicker niece by yanking a pistol out of her pocket and firing shots into the sky. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of . From Bookmarks Magazine: " Oddball characters aren't necessarily a death knell to a novel, particularly when they come from McMurtry's pen. In Loop Group, his sheer wealth of personalities, which encompasses everyone from sons-in-law to a local trooper who walks into the story only for a line or two, continues to entertain." Simon & Schuster 0-7394-4969-9 / 9780739449691
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SOME CAN WHISTLE (A NOVEL)
McMurtry, Larry
02871825 HARDCOVER. As New/As New Book Jacket. 6 X 9". Remember Danny Deck? He was the hero of 'ALL MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO BE STRANGERS', w ho endeared himself with his multiple neuroses. Enough of them remain for us to recognize him in SOME CAN WHISTLE', but Danny, predictably, has changed. Now middle-aged and reclusive, Danny has returned home to his native Texas. He writes for a living, but does so from a distance. In fact the answering machine is about as close as he cares to come to people. Danny's seclusion comes to an end with a call from T.R., the daughter he has never seen. That call changes Danny's life and the lives of everyone around him, including T.R. herself. This is a wonderful " father-daughter love story that underscores the special relationship that exists between male pregenitors and their baby girls." 348 pages Be sure to see all of the other Larry McMurtry books we have in stock at this website -- all priced up to 50% off publishers price. This book, now out-of-print was issued at twenty dollars in 1989. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1989
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SOME CAN WHISTLE (Fiction)
McMurtry, Larry
1989 11959 Larry McMurtry's story of a father learning to love a daughter he's never met is a richly comic, profoundly moving masterpiece. FROM THE PUBLISHER "Mr. Deck, are you my stinkin' Daddy?" In a furious phone call from T. R. , the daughter he's never met, Danny Deck gets the jolt of his life. A TV writer who's retired to his Texas mansion, Danny spends his days talking to the answering machines of his ex-lovers from New York to Paris and dreaming of the characters in the sitcom he's created. But suddenly, a hurricane called T. R. is storming into his life. . . In his most moving and richly comic contemporary novel since Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the modern West he created so masterfully in The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment. Some Can Whistle spins a tale of Hollywood glitz and Texas grit; of an extraordinary young woman and a murderous young man; and of a middle-aged millionaire running head-on into the longings, joys, and pathos of real life. FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly At 51, fat, lonely and rich Danny Deck (from All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers ) is contacted by his 22-year-old daughter, whom he last saw on the night of her birth. PW was disappointed with McMurtry's performance: ``Full of events that defy credibility, and peopled with characters whose relentless eccentricities are not remotely appealing, the novel further suffers from rampant sentimentality." Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group 0-671-64267-7 / 9780671642679
Hardcover Very Good New York
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THE LATE CHILD - A NOVEL
McMurtry, Larry
1995 02871108 Hard Cover. As New/As New Book Jacket. Out of Print. 6 x 9". 461 PAGES. "McMurtry's bittersweet 19th novel marks the welcome return of Harmony, the naively optimistic showgirl from The Desert Rose (1983). Now 47, Harmony is working in a Las Vegas recycling plant, retired from her reign as the most beautiful showgirl ever seen on the Strip (she dated Elvis and Sinatra, but slept only with Dan Duryea). Harmony's relentlessly hopeful take on life is shattered when she receives a letter from New York City explaining that her dancer daughter, Pepper, has died of AIDS. Not even the arrival of her sisters, Neddie and Pat (the latter a veteran of three trips to Masters & Johnson for sex addiction) can ease her overwhelming anguish. Fearing that grief might literally drive her insane, Harmony packs all her possessions into a U-Haul and, with her sisters and her precocious five-year-old son, Eddie, begins the drive home to Tarwater, Okla. Along the way, Eddie rescues an abandoned dog?whom they christen "Iggy Pop" from a Hopi reservation, and the U-Haul is destroyed in a fall into the Canyon de Chelly. This necessitates a detour to New York City, where the group is carried off to the seedy No-Tel Motel in Jersey City by three Arab-immigrant hustlers. They meet Pepper's female lover, temporarily adopt a homeless teenage hooker and visit the Statue of Liberty, where Iggy Pop survives disaster with a seagull and makes the cover of People magazine. When Harmony finally makes her way to Tarwater, she finds her family laden with troubles so perilous she must turn her grief to strength if she's to save them and herself. Raucous, unexpected and downright quirky, this is McMurtry at his powerful best. We have MANY Larry McMurtry novels listed at this site - . PUBLISHED AT twenty five dollars. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, 1995 0684809982 / 9780684809984
Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
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When the Light Goes: A Novel
McMurtry, Larry
2007 10010292 Years after he left him alone in a remote Texas cabin, suddenly widowed and among his fractious brood. As Duane, now 64, returns from an impromptu trip to Egypt, he's confronted by Anne Cameron, a young, flirtatious computer expert hired by Duane's son, Dickie (now manager of the small family oil company). Although smitten, Duane is still haunted by the memory of his wife, Karla, and also succumbs to a lassitude about his sex drive that ultimately reveals a more serious health problem. His therapist, Honor Carmichael, decides (after the death of her lover) that all Duane needs is some self-confidence, so she temporarily sets aside her professional ethics (and her lesbianism) to come to his aid. In the meantime, old friends die, as does his tiny town of Thalia (setting of six McMurtry novels, finally swallowed up by creeping sprawl), and his daughters annoy him. Bereft of subplot or complications, this slim novel reads like a short story, and the second half is dominated by vivid but curiously clinical sex scenes. Simon & Schuster, 1-4165-3426-1 / 9781416534266
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When the Light Goes: A Novel
McMurtry, Larry
2007 10010156 With less than happy results, McMurtry picks up the story of Duane Moore (Duane's Depressed) two years after he left him alone in a remote Texas cabin, suddenly widowed and among his fractious brood. As Duane, now 64, returns from an impromptu trip to Egypt, he's confronted by Anne Cameron, a young, flirtatious computer expert hired by Duane's son, Dickie (now manager of the small family oil company). Although smitten, Duane is still haunted by the memory of his wife, Karla, and also succumbs to a lassitude about his sex drive that ultimately reveals a more serious health problem. His therapist, Honor Carmichael, decides (after the death of her lover) that all Duane needs is some self-confidence, so she temporarily sets aside her professional ethics (and her lesbianism) to come to his aid. In the meantime, old friends die, as does his tiny town of Thalia (setting of six McMurtry novels, finally swallowed up by creeping sprawl), and his daughters annoy him. Bereft of subplot or complications, this slim novel reads like a short story, and the second half is dominated by vivid but curiously clinical sex scenes. Simon & Schuster 1-4165-3426-1 / 9781416534266
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