McMurtry writes frankly and with deep feeling about his own experiences as a writer, a parent, and a heart patient, and he deftly lays bare the raw material that helped shape his lifes work: the creation of the vast, ambitious, fictional panorama of Texas in the past and in the present. Throughout, McMurtry leaves his readers with constant reminders of his all-encompassing, boundless love of literature and book.
Larry McMurtry, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the author of twenty-three novels.
This is a book containing four essays, all biographical about his childhood, through his writing life, his book scouting and his book store owning.
This is a guy who has a personal library of twenty thousand volumes and his total ownership is approximately five hundred thousand in his secondhand bookstores. He has been a huge reader since he was gifted nineteen volumes at approximately twelve years of age. The only time he stopped reading for pleasure was after his bypass surgery where he was unable to read for pleasure for two years.
This is a book about reading, if you love reading you should read this. He is also a handy writer, Lonesome Dove, Texasville and many more besides.
Also he is the father of musician James McMurtry. This is a great wee book.
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