Taking Stock: A Larry McMurtry Casebook (Southwest Life and Letters)

Book Overview

Gathers together the essays of criticism and comment on McMurtry's fiction, non-fiction, and films, in addition to giving an extensive bibliography. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870742914
• ISBN13: 9780870742910
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Southern Methodist Univ Pr
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

The only work of its kind for McMurtry scholars

A fantastic collection of essays organized by subject. This is the only work of which I'm aware that even attempts to deal with a large chunk of LMM's career. The only detractions are that the quality of writing in the essays varies greatly, and that most of the scholars represented are regionalists at best. It seems that McMurtry may be right that it is impossible to write essays about Texas that appeal to any but Texas intellictuals, of whom there are few. -tf