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  2. Larry McMurtry - Wikipedia

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    McMurtry was a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. [19] McMurtry was a vigorous defender of free speech and, while serving as president of PEN American Center (now PEN America) from 1989 to 1991, led the organization's efforts to support writer Salman Rushdie, [20] whose novel The Satanic Verses (1988) caused a major ...

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  4. 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 ...

  5. Terms of Endearment (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The novel follows the often fraught relationship between a mother and daughter, as they manage marriages, illness, and other life events. While McMurtry's first three novels had been about young people leaving the country, his next three, including Terms of Endearment, were about "urbanites" (the fourth and fifth novels being Moving On and All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers).

  6. Anything for Billy - Wikipedia

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    Kirkus Reviews wrote, "Stuffed with excitement, humor, tragedy, and leathery Western lore; centerpieced by McMurtry's vibrant portrait of Billy, scary, pathetic, yet darkly if oddly sympathetic; told in a warm, wise voice that you wish would never cease: this is a golden, always surprising yarn, and a welcome return by McMurtry to the high-stepping form of Lonesome Dove."

  7. 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.

  8. 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 ]

  9. Texasville (novel) - Wikipedia

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    McMurtry wrote "it centered on the famous oil boom of the 70s, which described the excesses of human folly as I witnessed them in Archer City and the homes of my siblings as the irresistible notion of riches came to race through and desiccate the town, all despite that the history of booms is well known. "[3] He added, "I thought the whole bust ...