Hollywood, Larry McMurtry
Hollywood, Larry McMurtry
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Hollywood
A Third Memoir

Author: Larry McMurtry

Narrator: Henry Strozier

Unabridged: 4 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/04/2011


Synopsis

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry follows up Books and Literary Life with this final installment in his memoir trilogy. Tinged with his wry humor and Texas swagger, Hollywood is McMurtry's anecdote-filled take on Tinseltown from the year his Horseman, Pass By was adapted into Hud (1963) to the year he wrote the screenplay for the Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain (2005).

About Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. His other works include two collections of essays, three memoirs, and more than thirty screenplays, including the coauthorship of Brokeback Mountain, for which he received an Academy Award. He lives in Archer City, Texas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on April 11, 2021

Though probably best known for his fiction of the old and contemporary west, Larry McMurtry really had three very successful, albeit overlapping, careers: novelist, scriptwriter for Hollywood movies and television, and antiquarian book collector. Credit must be given to authorship as the first of th......more

Goodreads review by Simon on June 21, 2019

This book, his last in the memoir triumvirate, ("Books & Literary Life") celebrates the Hollywood of the 60's, 70's, 80's & beyond as told from an outlier screenwriter's tale. His first book "Horseman, Pass by" was made into a the film "Hud" starring Paul Newman and this began his long running relat......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on May 06, 2020

3.5 stars. My least favorite of the three memoirs but still full of McMurtry goodness.......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on July 13, 2022

How somebody from a parched, wind-swept and desolate Texas town & adjacent ranch becomes so enamored with literary pursuits is a fortunate but mysterious thing. If your writing oeuvre includes scripts such as Hud, Lonesome Dove, Brokeback Mountain, Terms of Endearment, and The Last Picture Show, you......more

Goodreads review by Brendan on November 12, 2010

McMurtry is one of my all-time favorite authors. Hollywood is the third book in his autobiographical trilogy; of the three it is by far the best. When I first learned Larry was sub-dividing his life story I suspected it was some sort of scam to sell more books - kind of a one story for the price of......more