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First published in 1968, In a Narrow Grave is the classic statement of what it means to come from Texas. In these essays, McMurtry's fine prose opens a window into the complex workings of America's.
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Writing with characteristic grace and wit, Larry McMurtry tackles the full spectrum of his favorite themes -- from sex, literature, and cowboys to rodeos, small-town folk, and big-city slickers. First published in 1968, In a Narrow Grave is the classic statement of what it means to come from Texas.
Editions for In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas: 0684868695 (Paperback published in 2001), (Kindle Edition published in 2018), 1631493531 (Paperback publ.
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Get this from a library! In a narrow grave: essays on Texas. (Larry McMurtry) -- In this remarkable, witty and astute book, the author casts a realistic and disenchanted eye over the legends and realities of his native Texas, puncturing the myths of that grandiosely mythical.
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The latter, which collected essays that Graves had published in Texas Monthly magazine, was also nominated for a National Book Award. Graves continued to write about the environment and about Texas. On July 31, 2013, he died at his home near Glen Rose, Texas, at the age of 92.
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They prefer reflections, thoughts, writings, anything but the dreaded word. Refreshingly, the subtitle of Don Graham’s Giant Country boldly proclaims that this is a collection of essays, “Essays on Texas,” an echo perhaps of Larry McMurtry’s well-known In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas (1968).
Larry Jeff McMurtry (born June 3, 1936) is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the Old West or in contemporary Texas. His novels include Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), which were adapted into films earning 26 Oscar nominations (10 wins).
The classic statement of what it means to come from Texas. Without question the author's best non-fiction book, and maybe, just maybe his best book. A fine copy in dust jacket.
Internet Archive BookReader In a narrow grave: essays on Texas: with a new preface.
I n 1968, five years before this magazine was born, I published—with Bill and Sally Wittliff’s elegant, Austin-based Encino Press—a slim book of essays called In a Narrow Grave, a title.
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This essay is in a slightly different form then its original appearance in In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas. Encino Press, Austin, 1968.
Books by Larry McMurtry (in order of publication year) Horseman, Pass By (1961) Leaving Cheyenne (1963) The Last Picture Show (1966; first book in Thalia series) In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas (1968; nonfiction) Moving On (1970) All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers (1972) Terms of Endearment (1975) Somebody's Darling (1978).