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During the 1960–1961 academic year, McMurtry was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at the Stanford University Creative Writing Center, where he studied the craft of fiction under Frank O'Connor and Malcolm Cowley, [9] alongside other aspiring writers, including Wendell Berry, Ken Kesey, Peter S. Beagle, and Gurney Norman.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Moving On is a 1970 American novel by Larry McMurtry.His fourth novel, it focuses on Patsy Carpenter and her husband Jim in contemporary Texas. Larry McMurtry called it "a book partly about graduate school, partly about rodeo, and partly about the indecision that is likely to afflict young marrieds, particularly those who belonged to what used to be called the Silent Generation."
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).
Anything for Billy is a 1988 American novel by Larry McMurtry about Billy the Kid. It was one of a series of what McMutry called his "frontier yarns", others including Boone's Lick and Buffalo Girls. He said Anything for Billy was a parody of dime novels. [1]
In 1981 McMurtry said the book marked a dividing line in his career after which he no longer wrote about living in the country (although he would go on to write books with country settings again). [1] McMutry tried to sell the book to Simon and Schuster who rejected it but it was picked up by Encino Press.