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Larry McMurtry and the West: An Ambivalent Relationship
Texas Writers Series
by Mark Busby
title
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Larry McMurtry and the West : An Ambivalent Relationship Texas Writers Series ; [No. 4]
author
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Busby, Mark.
publisher
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University of North Texas Press
isbn10 | asin
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0929398343
print isbn13
:
9780929398341
ebook isbn13
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9780585259024
language
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English
subject
McMurtry, Larry--Knowledge--West (U.S.) , Western stories--History and criticism, West (U.S.)--In literature, Ambivalence in literature, Texas--In literature.
publication date
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1995
lcc
:
PS3563.A319Z59 1995eb
ddc
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813/.54
subject
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McMurtry, Larry--Knowledge--West (U.S.) , Western stories--History and criticism, West (U.S.)--In literature, Ambivalence in literature, Texas--In literature.
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University of North Texas Press, 1995
All rights reserved First printed in 1995 in the United States of America
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The paper in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48.1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Busby, Mark. Larry McMurtry and the West: an ambivalent relationship / by Mark Busby. p. cm. (Texas writers series ; no. 4) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-929398-34-3 1. McMurtry, LarryKnowledgeWest (U.S.) 2. Western storieshistory and criticism. 3. West (U.S.)In literature. 4. Ambivalence in literature. 5. TexasIn literature. I. Title. II. Series. PS3563.A319Z59 1995 94-47200 813'.54dc20 CIP
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For my grandfather, father, and uncle Arch, Jim, and Lon Busby who paid homage to the cowboy god riding West, and for my son, brother, and nephew Josh, Steven, and Zack Busby who live in a different world.
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Table of Contents
Preface
ix
1 His Blood's Country
1
2 Escape, Ambivalence, and Return
31
3 Leaving Thalia: The Rural Trilogy and In a Narrow Grave
69
4 The Houston Trilogy
118
5 Escape: The Trash Trilogy
151
6 Return: Lonesome Dove
178
7 Thalia, Houston Redux: Texasville, Some Can Whistle, and The Evening Star
201
8 The Symbolic Frontiersman: Anything for Billy, Buffalo Girls, and Streets of Laredo
235
9 McMurtry and the Movies. Film Flam
277
10 The Roundup
301
Works Cited
311
Index
329
Page ix
Preface
The purpose of this study is to examine Larry McMurtry's writing career in order to establish the significance of his relationship with his home region. My thesis is that McMurtry's writing is characterized by a deep ambivalence toward his home territory, a vacillation that cuts through his work and his attitudes about writing itself. The course of his career demonstrates his shifting attitudes that have led him toward, away, and then back again to his home territory and the "cowboy god" that dominates its mythology.
Over the years McMurtry has increasingly been perceived as eccentric, aloof, and somewhat ornery, most recently tending to avoid interviews and refusing to hit the promotion circuit. But of all the people I would like to thank for help with this project, I first need to acknowledge Larry McMurtry for generously giving the time to talk with me about his work and exchanging faxes with me, as technology continues to touch research in different ways. I would also like to acknowledge the help of the rest of the McMurtrysSue, Judy, and Charlie. Sue Deen and the group at the Blue Pig book store in Archer City welcomed me graciously. I would also like to thank Ken Kesey, whom Larry calls the "last wagon master," for the evening at our house in Wimberley, Texas, talking books,
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recalling his times with Larry, and being the merry prankster of old; and Bill Wittliff, who offered his observations on publishing and adapting McMurtry. There are also the people who engaged me in the project: my old friend Clay Reynolds, who asked me to edit a section of Taking Stock: A Larry McMurtry Casebook in 1989 and with whom I share a similar relationship to McMurtry's work; James Ward Lee, general editor of the Texas Writers Series, and Fran Vick and Charlotte Wright, director and editor at the University of North Texas Press, who encouraged me to do the project, kept after me to finish, and read and edited the manuscript; and a number of others who provided me with material: Patricia Bozeman, Head of Special Collections at the University of Houston; Jay Cox at the University of Arizona, for a copy of her master's study of McMurtry's sources in Lonesome Dove; George Hickenlooper, who provided me with a copy of his fine documentary Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas
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