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Thalia - Larry McMurtry

By Larry McMurtry

Release Date: 2017-09-19

Genre: Literary Fiction

4.5 (30 ratings)
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One of Entertainment Weekly’s "Most Beautiful Books of the Year"

The renaissance of Larry McMurtry, “an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold” (New York Times Book Review), continues with the publication of Thalia.

Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels— Horseman, Pass By (1961),* Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966)— all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, McMurtry writes tragically of men and women trying to carve out an existence on the plains, where the forces of modernity challenge small- town American life. From a cattleranch rivalry that confirms McMurtry’s “full- blooded Western genius” (Publishers Weekly) to a love triangle involving a cowboy, his rancher boss and wife, and finally to the hardscrabble citizens of an oil- patch town trying to keep their only movie house alive, McMurtry captures the stark realities of the West like no one else. With a new introduction, Thalia emerges as an American classic that celebrates one of our greatest literary masters.

*Just named in 2017 by Publishers Weekly the #1 Western novel worthy of rediscovery.

Thalia - Larry McMurtry

By Larry McMurtry

Release Date: 2017-09-19

Genre: Literary Fiction

4.5 (30 ratings)
Read Download
One of Entertainment Weekly’s "Most Beautiful Books of the Year"

The renaissance of Larry McMurtry, “an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold” (New York Times Book Review), continues with the publication of Thalia.

Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels— Horseman, Pass By (1961),* Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966)— all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, McMurtry writes tragically of men and women trying to carve out an existence on the plains, where the forces of modernity challenge small- town American life. From a cattleranch rivalry that confirms McMurtry’s “full- blooded Western genius” (Publishers Weekly) to a love triangle involving a cowboy, his rancher boss and wife, and finally to the hardscrabble citizens of an oil- patch town trying to keep their only movie house alive, McMurtry captures the stark realities of the West like no one else. With a new introduction, Thalia emerges as an American classic that celebrates one of our greatest literary masters.

*Just named in 2017 by Publishers Weekly the #1 Western novel worthy of rediscovery.

More by Larry McMurtry

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Dead Man's Walk

Comanche Moon

The Last Kind Words Saloon

Streets Of Laredo

The Lonesome Dove Series

Little Big Man

The Last Picture Show

Texasville

Custer

Boone's Lick

Sin Killer

Crazy Horse

Rhino Ranch

The Wandering Hill

Horseman, Pass By

By Sorrow's River

Terms of Endearment

The Berrybender Narratives

Telegraph Days

All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers

Folly and Glory

Duane's Depressed

Thalia

The Last Picture Show

Leaving Cheyenne

Moving On

When the Light Goes

Anything for Billy

Hollywood

The Evening Star

Oh What a Slaughter

Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay

Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen

In a Narrow Grave

Zeke and Ned

Cadillac Jack

Still Wild

Buffalo Girls

Somebody's Darling

Pretty Boy Floyd

Some Can Whistle

Loop Group

Roads

The Colonel and Little Missie

The Desert Rose

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