In 2010, he won the Richard Wright Award. His work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. His 2004 novel, Prisoners of War, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and his 1999 novel, The Oxygen Man, won the California Book Award, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, and the Mississippi Authors Award. he wrote Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, The Evening Star, and Horseman, Pass By. But he knows his town and its folkways.' Moving On. 15 hours ago &0183 &32 Larry McMurtry was one of the definitive storytellers of twentieth-century Texas. In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically. His 2006 novel, The End of California, (Knopf) was a finalist for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for fiction. The Last Picture Show (1966) 'McMurtry is not exactly a virtuoso at the typewriter. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Steve Yarbrough is the author of nine novels, including The Realm of Last Chances (2013) and Safe from the Neighbors (2010), both published by Knopf. The Last Picture Show - Ebook written by Larry McMurtry. In this volume in Ig’s acclaimed Bookmarked series, award-winning author Steve Yarbrough shares with us the importance of this seminal novel on his life and work as he explores the parallels of coming of age as a writer in the American south, like Larry McMurtry. The Last Picture Show (1966) is both a rambunctious coming-of-age story and an elegy to a forlorn Texas town trying to keep its one movie house alive. Set in a small, dusty Texas town, The Last Picture Show is one of Larry McMurtry’s most memorable novels, and the basis for the enormously popular movie of the same name.

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