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Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008: In writing nearly 40 books, including the Pultizer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry has emerged as one of America's most beloved bookmen. In Books: A Memoir, McMurtry shares his lifelong passion and dogged pursuit of books. In short, gemlike chapters, he paints a fascinating picture of the landscape of American book culture and bookselling over a 50-year period. The story is as dusty, musty, and crusty as any of McMurtry's fictionalized Westerns, filled with characters who seem like they stepped out of central casting. Whether you love McMurtry, books, bookstores, or a combination thereof, you'll find something to love in Books: A Memoir. --Lauren Nemroff
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In a prolific life of singular literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded in a variety of genres: in coming-of-age novels like The Last Picture Show; in collections of essays like In a Narrow Grave; and in the reinvention of the Western on a grand scale in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove. Now, in Books: A Memoir, McMurtry writes about his endless passion for books: as a boy growing up in a largely "bookless" world; as a young man devouring the vastness of literature with astonishing energy; as a fledgling writer and family man; and above all, as one of America's most prominent bookmen. He takes us on his journey to becoming an astute, adventurous book scout and collector who would eventually open stores of rare and collectible editions in Georgetown, Houston, and finally, in his previously "bookless" hometown of Archer City, Texas.
In this work of extraordinary charm, grace, and good humor, McMurtry recounts his life as both a reader and a writer, how the countless books he has read worked to form his literary tastes, while giving us a lively look at the eccentrics who collect, sell, or simply lust after rare volumes. Books: A Memoir is like the best kind of diary -- full of McMurtry's wonderful anecdotes, amazing characters, engaging gossip, and shrewd observations about authors, book people, literature, and the author himself. At once chatty, revealing, and deeply satisfying, Books is, like McMurtry, erudite, life loving, and filled with excellent stories. It is a book to be savored and enjoyed again and again.
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