5/20/2023 0 Comments Larry mcmurtry novels![]() ![]() The barrage of obituaries for the Pulitzer Prize winner and author of more than 40 books referred to him as a chronicler of the American West. And he had a knack for capturing female characters in a way that few male writers can, most famously the destructive widow Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment. Those characters, though often unlikeable, were deeply relatable. His characters always seemed to be in the midst of some internal struggle, always on a never-ending journey to discover who they were and what they valued. With the exception of Joshua Deets, the Black cowboy in Lonesome Dove, characters of color were few and far between in his novels, and the way he spoke of the American West-"a nearly absolute emptiness" until the pioneers arrived-erased the generations of indigenous peoples whose land was colonized by Europeans.īut what I most related to in McMurtry's writing was his ability to capture the melancholy and low-level din of daily survival. ![]()
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