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  2. Larry McMurtry - Wikipedia

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    McMurtry married Norma Faye Kesey, the widow of writer Ken Kesey, on April 29, 2011, in a civil ceremony in Archer City. [ 40 ] McMurtry died on March 25, 2021, at his home in Tucson, Arizona.

  3. All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers - Wikipedia

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    McMurtry later wrote it was not until the book was published "that I became convinced that I was a writer and would remain one." [1] He wrote it in five weeks after finishing his fourth novel, Moving On. In 2009 stated, "The book was then and probably still remains the best entry point to my fiction, mainly because I was too tired to feel in ...

  4. Sometimes a Great Notion - Wikipedia

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    While One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is more famous, many critics consider Sometimes a Great Notion Kesey's magnum opus. [1] The story involves an Oregon family of gyppo loggers who cut trees for a local mill in opposition to unionized workers who are on strike. Kesey took the title from the song "Goodnight, Irene", popularized by Lead ...

  5. Books: A Memoir - Wikipedia

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    Books: A Memoir is a 2008 memoir by Larry McMurtry. It focuses on his love of books and his experiences as a book buyer and seller. [1] [2] Kirkus called it "A pleasant amble in Bookland and a treat for the bookishly inclined, as well as for McMurtry buffs." [3] Writing for The New York Times, James Campbell wrote that the book reads like notes ...

  6. The Berrybender Narratives - Wikipedia

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    The Berrybender Narratives is a series of novels written by Larry McMurtry. It tells the story of an ill-fated hunting expedition lasting several years and covering much of the early American West. As with much of McMurtry's Western fiction, it weaves a tale of bloody adventure with a sort of ghastly dark humor.

  7. Oh What a Slaughter! : Massacres in the American West: 1846 ...

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    : Massacres in the American West: 1846–1890 is a 2006 book by Larry McMurtry. [1] He later wrote "I became interested in hundred-victim massacres in the Old West and produced a study of them." [ 2 ]

  8. Crazy Horse: A Life - Wikipedia

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    McMurtry is good at the less intimate moments, however, when he suggests that mutual incomprehension between white settlers and Indians led to sporadic and at first inconclusive warfare. And this apparently objective story is striated with the gleams and intimations of the novelist shrouded within the biographer."

  9. The Desert Rose - Wikipedia

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    McMurtry always had a great deal of affection for the book saying that he suffered "a literary gloom that lasted from 1975 until 1983, when the miracle of The Desert Rose snapped me out of it." [ 4 ] He wrote the book in 21 days saying it was "a book that seemed to flow out of me as rapidly as I could type.

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