The basis for a classic film, The Last Picture Show is both extremely funny and deeply profound. And, with the eccentrically peopled Thalia, Texas, Larry McMurtry made a small town that feels as real as any you've ever walked around.
Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936) is an American essayist,
bookseller, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter, who wrote the
screenplay of Brokeback Mountain. He has published 21 novels, and
also operates antiquarian bookshops in Washington DC, Texas and
Arizona.
Mary Karr (born January 16, 1955) is an American poet, essayist and
memoirist. She rose to fame in 1995 with the publication of her
bestselling memoir The Liars' Club. She is the Peck Professor of
English Literature at Syracuse University.
'An alchemist who converts the basest materials into gold'
*The New York Times Book Review*
'There aren't many writers around who are as much fun as Larry
McMurtry'
*Boston Globe*
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