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In a Narrow Grave : Essays on Texas

Larry McMurtry

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Description:Writing with characteristic grace and wit, Larry McMurtry tackles the full spectrum of his favorite themes -- from sex, literature, and cowboys to rodeos, small-town folk, and big-city slickers. First published in 1968, In a Narrow Grave is the classic statement of what it means to come from Texas. In these essays, McMurtry opens a window into the past and present of America's largest state. In his own words: "Before I was out of high school, I realized I was witnessing the dying of a way of life -- the rural, pastoral way of life. In the Southwest the best energies were no longer to be found on the homeplace, or in the small towns; the cities required these energies and the cities bought them...." "I recognized, too, that the no-longer-open but still spacious range on which my ranching family had made its livelihood...would not produce a livelihood for me or for my siblings and their kind....The myth of the cowboy grew purer every year because there were so few actual cowboys left to contradict it...." "I had actually been living in cities for fourteen years when I pulled together these essays; intellectually I had been a city boy, but imaginatively, I was still trudging up the dusty path that led out of the country...."An introduction: the God abandons Texas --Here's HUD in your eye --Cowboys, movies, myths, & Cadillacs: an excursus on ritual forms in the western movie --Southwestern literature? --Eros in Archer County --A look at the lost frontier --The old soldier's joy --Love, death, and the Astrodome --A handful of roses --Take my saddle from the wall: a valedictionWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In a Narrow Grave : Essays on Texas. To get started finding In a Narrow Grave : Essays on Texas, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 305

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: N/A

Release: 1968

ISBN: 0684868695

Description: Writing with characteristic grace and wit, Larry McMurtry tackles the full spectrum of his favorite themes -- from sex, literature, and cowboys to rodeos, small-town folk, and big-city slickers. First published in 1968, In a Narrow Grave is the classic statement of what it means to come from Texas. In these essays, McMurtry opens a window into the past and present of America's largest state. In his own words: "Before I was out of high school, I realized I was witnessing the dying of a way of life -- the rural, pastoral way of life. In the Southwest the best energies were no longer to be found on the homeplace, or in the small towns; the cities required these energies and the cities bought them...." "I recognized, too, that the no-longer-open but still spacious range on which my ranching family had made its livelihood...would not produce a livelihood for me or for my siblings and their kind....The myth of the cowboy grew purer every year because there were so few actual cowboys left to contradict it...." "I had actually been living in cities for fourteen years when I pulled together these essays; intellectually I had been a city boy, but imaginatively, I was still trudging up the dusty path that led out of the country...."An introduction: the God abandons Texas --Here's HUD in your eye --Cowboys, movies, myths, & Cadillacs: an excursus on ritual forms in the western movie --Southwestern literature? --Eros in Archer County --A look at the lost frontier --The old soldier's joy --Love, death, and the Astrodome --A handful of roses --Take my saddle from the wall: a valedictionWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In a Narrow Grave : Essays on Texas. To get started finding In a Narrow Grave : Essays on Texas, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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