Literary Life, Larry McMurtry
Literary Life, Larry McMurtry
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Literary Life
A Second Memoir

Author: Larry McMurtry

Narrator: Henry Strozier

Unabridged: 4 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/25/2010


Synopsis

In Literary Life, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry opens up about the triumphs and trials of his abundant literary career. Relaying his early interest in writing that began with a creative writing class at Rice University, to a career that boasts over 40 novels and an Academy Award-winning screenplay, this intimate portrait of the author offers a glimpse into an intelligent, honest and undeniably profound voice in contemporary American Literature.

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 D. on February 10, 2010

First off, let me say I am huge fan of Larry McMurtry. I’ve read many of his novels, found them all fine and consider Lonesome Dove one of the greatest western novels ever, and one of the finest American Novels of the last fifty years. I dug his and Diane Ossana’s screenplay to Brokeback Mountain, t......more

Goodreads review by Mark on February 16, 2021

Literary Life: A Second Memoir by Larry McMurtry is a positively charming, humorous, and enormously entertaining book. It consists of highly-digestible, short-ish chapters written in a friendly, informal style, as if one is sitting with McMurtry in a bar or coffee shop listening to him recount his n......more

Goodreads review by Simon on June 13, 2019

I get the impression through my reading [ongoing] blitzkrieg of McMurtry novels, mainly, but this a third of his five or so memoirs that, writing is something he does, not so much as by inspiration but rather as compulsion as part of process. To me it seems that book scouting & possessing a favored......more

Goodreads review by Riley on June 12, 2024

Larry McMurtry loves Duane’s Depressed......more

Goodreads review by John on June 23, 2013

Larry McMurtry follows Mark Twain's advice for writing a memoir to a fault, i.e. don't do a chronological review but follow threads as far as they interest you (and hopefully, the reader.) McMurtry never fails to interest me, and this book is first rate in being interesting to me. But, it does feel......more