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Larry McMurtry and the West : an ambivalent relationship / by Mark Busby.
Material type: TextSeries: Texas writers series ; no. 4.Publication details: Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 1995.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 344 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 058525902X
- 9780585259024
- McMurtry, Larry -- Knowledge -- West (U. S.)
- McMurtry, Larry
- Western stories -- History and criticism
- West (U.S.) -- In literature
- Ambivalence in literature
- Texas -- In literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- Ambivalence in literature
- Literature
- Western stories
- Texas
- West United States
- English
- Languages & Literatures
- American Literature
- 813/.54 20
- PS3563.A319 Z59 1995eb
Contents:
1. His Blood's Country -- 2. Escape, Ambivalence, and Return -- 3. Leaving Thalia: The Rural Trilogy and In a Narrow Grave -- 4. The Houston Trilogy -- 5. Escape: The Trash Trilogy -- 6. Return: Lonesome Dove -- 7. Thalia, Houston Redux: Texasville, Some Can Whistle, and The Evening Star -- 8. The Symbolic Frontiersman: Anything for Billy, Buffalo Girls, and Streets of Laredo -- 9. McMurtry and the Movies: Film Flam -- 10. The Roundup.