Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry – An Intimate Biography of the Pulitzer and Oscar-Winning Texas Icon Behind Lonesome Dove and Brokeback Mountain - Couverture rigide

Streitfeld, David

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ISBN 10 : 0063234882 ISBN 13 : 9780063234888

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2026

Synopsis

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback Mountain, who transformed our vision of the West.

Before Larry McMurtry became one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century, he worked on his family’s ranch in rural Texas. At night he heard vivid stories of his cowboy uncles driving herds of cattle across the plains where there once were bison and Native Americans. “McMurtry Means Beef,” as one ranching magazine put it. By the time he died in 2021, McMurtry had published forty books, won a Pulitzer for Lonesome Dove and an Oscar for his cowritten adaptation of Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain, and seen his work made into such classic films as Hud and Terms of Endearment. Now, McMurtry means great stories.

For all his fame, McMurtry was an elusive figure. He loved women but was married to his typewriter; he was wary of critics and distrustful of other men—except David Streitfeld. When McMurtry gave the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist the keys to his past, Streitfeld dug into every archive and interviewed everyone who would talk. He found that, even as McMurtry’s work criticized the old cowboy myths, he loved making up stories about himself.

Western Star reveals the real and complicated life of a storyteller who was both an icon and critic of Texas, the favorite of presidents, confidant to movie stars like Diane Keaton and Cybill Shepherd, friend to Ken Kesey and husband to his widow Faye, an obsessive bookseller, and the most enduring voice of the American West. 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Streitfeld is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist at the New York Times, where he writes about technology. He lives in the Bay Area with his family and too many books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0063234882
• ISBN 13: 9780063234888
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 464
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