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Books: A Memoir [Audiobook] [CD] (Audio CD)

by Larry McMurtry (Author), William Dufris (Reader)

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Publisher: Tantor Media; Library ed edition (Aug 1 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400138051
ISBN-13: 978-1400138050
Product Dimensions: 16.9 x 16.5 x 2.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 245 g

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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 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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With astonishing charm, grace, and good humor, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove returns with a fascinating memoir of his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare books.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The master writer is also a bookman..., Jul 30 2008

By	Bill Pullman "Book reviewer" (USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

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I came to know McMurtry as many did through his excellent novel Lonesome Dove. Then I learned I already knew him through the many screenplays and novels he has written that became major motion pictures: Hud, Last picture show, terms of endearment to name a few. I have since read most of what he has written. I heard he owned an eclectic used antique book store filled with many hard to find books many collector items, his novel Cadillac Jack was about an antique book scout. So I was interested to read this memoir of McMurtry's life as a bookman. I use the term Bookman because you don't have to be a writer to be a bookman. McMurtry's simple mastery of the language is again on display as he takes on his journey of becoming a book scout and collector. The characters he meets and the places he travels are brought vividly to life. He ends up opening used book stores that carry rare and collectable editions, the eclectic of which is the one he opens in his home town of Archer City Texas (also the setting for the last Picture show, and subsequent sequels). McMurtry gives the reader an adventurous and some time comic look into the world of those who collect and covet rare books, a world inhabited by some strange birds! What I enjoyed most about this book, however, was the insight into how the many books he has read has formed his literary outlook and influenced his writings ( I have more than I few new books on my to be read list after finishing this book). This is a book I will read more than once. I also Recommend "Across the High Lonesome" which I picked up after seeing it recommended by McMurtry

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