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60 years later, Larry McMurtry’s ‘love/hate’ relationship with his hometown still resonates in ‘The Last Picture Show’
“Sixty years after the book was published, the town still smarts.”
The unvarnished, and sometimes unflattering, portrayal of small-town life is what made the work so groundbreaking.
It’s also what made the book, film and the late author himself polarizing among the locals.
#Cinema #JeffBridges #Literature #LarryMcMurtry #Texas #ArcherCity #MSU
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I finished "Lonesome Dove" a while ago but did not get round to posting about it.
McMurtry wrote this with an intent to demythologize the western and give the reader an unflinching tale of harsh people in hard times instead.
He did not really succeed, as he ended trapped by the "epic" structure of the Texas to Montana cattle drive and an often insufficiently critical approach to embedded conventions regarding ethnicity and gender. To exemplify the latter problem , consider the sadistic Blue Duck who fits into a long line of racist portrayals of American Indians, or Lorena Wood, who could not be a more stereotyped "whore with a heart of gold".
Two leading male characters show how the "Lonesome Dove " remains locked in the narrow conventions of genre. Woodrow Call and "Gus" McCrae, sometime Texas Rangers and joint owners of the Hat Creek Cattle Company, provide contrasting modes of male leadership. As such, and in their relationships with each other, younger cowboys, women, and their own ageing selves, they illustrate a tendency of the western as a genre to treat the West not as a real inhabited region in North America but rather as a stage setting for white males to explore their own anxieties and white Americans in general to fret about "the closing of the frontier".
I'm sure that a student of the Reagan era could show how "Lonesome Dove " exemplifies aspects of US culture of the 1980s; I don't have either the energy or the inclination to undertake that task myself.
#Books #LonesomeDove #LarryMcMurtry #Western #USLiterature
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Ten pages into "Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry and I'm already hating the yeehawness..
Another 820 to go...🙁
#Books #LonesomeDove #LarryMcMurtry #3Western #USLiterature #1980s #Texas
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New book shows ‘Lonesome Dove’ author Larry McMurtry’s ambivalence 📚
Longtime journalist David Streitfeld wrote the biography “Western Star” and says McMurtry identified strongly as a Texan but also couldn’t stand the Lone Star State.
#Bookstodon #LarryMcMurtry #WesternStar #LonesomeDove #BookedUp
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Review: New biography of Larry McMurtry reveals much about elusive writer’s life
David Streitfeld’s “Western Star” lets lovers of McMurtry’s work get to know the Texas author.
#Literature #LarryMcMurtry #JoyceSáenzHarris #Texas #LonesomeDove #WesternStar #Biography #Bookstodon #TomWolfe #DavidStreitfield #ElectricKoolAidAcidTest #KenKesey #ArcherCity
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Anything for Billy: A Novel "The first time I saw Billy, he came walking out of a cloud." Sale: $24.99 to $1.99 by Larry McMurtry Rating: 4.2/5 (560 Reviews) #Western #HistoricalFiction #BillyTheKid #LarryMcMurtry #Books #BookSky
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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Reading Larry McMurty's Walter Benjamin at The Dairy Queen and getting yet another way in which settler colonialism has been devastating for people and the planet.
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Thomas Tull’s Teton Ridge Entertainment Buys Rights to Larry McMurtry’s ‘Lonesome Dove’ Novels
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The 2005 #Smog song "Say Valley Maker" marks many changes in the life of #BillCallahan as he uses the river as the central symbol to demonstrate "everyday transcendence." The song creates new language from natural and supernatural phenomenon as the only way to describe the need for love and connection. The post also looks at "Rock Bottom Riser" along with ample #LarryMcMurtry and #AnnieDillard references. All this and more in the latest Recliner Notes post:
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Larry McMurtry, Novelist And Screenwriter Of The West, Has Died At Age 84
Larry McMurtry, a prolific, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Oscar-winning screenwriter, has died at age 84. He was beloved for riveting and yet unsentimental depictions of the American West in books such as Lonesome Dove as well as for tales of family drama including Terms of Endearment. ...
