Understanding Larry Mcmurtry

In Understanding Larry McMurtry, Frye offers a comprehensive treatment of one of the most important living authors, one who has emerged as a central figure in a rich and compelling contemporary canon.

About the author

Steven Frye is a professor of American literature at California State University, Bakersfield. He is the author of Historiography and Narrative Design in the American Romance and Understanding Cormac McCarthy, published by the University of South Carolina Press, and editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West and The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy

Summary

Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. Steven Frye considers a broad range of McMurtry's most important novels and offers detailed textual analyses of works such as The Last Picture Show and Lonesome Dove to reveal the manner in which McMurtry engages the human condition.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Frye
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781611177626
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-762-6
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature; Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies