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03191aam a2200409 i 4500 001 3A86867A475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170602010157 008 161123s2017 scu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2016054278 020 $a 1611177626 020 $a 9781611177626 035 $a (OCoLC)960837658 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3563.A319 $b Z66 2017 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 084 $a PER004050 $a PER004050 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Frye, Steven, $e author. 245 10 $a Understanding Larry McMurtry / $c Steven Frye. 264 1 $a Columbia, South Carolina : $b The University of South Carolina Press, $c [2017] 300 $a 133 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Understanding contemporary American literature 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove and his Academy Award-winning screenplay for Brokeback Mountain, Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. In Understanding Larry McMurtry, Steven Frye considers a broad range of McMurtry's most important novels and offers detailed textual analyses of works such as Horseman, Pass By, The Last Picture Show, Moving On, and Lonesome Dove to reveal the manner in which McMurtry engages the human condition. Characters are at the heart of McMurtry's fiction, whether they are nineteenth- or twentieth-century ranchers, modern rodeo men, or women grappling with the angst and confusion of life in the suburbs of Houston. He has created characters rich in texture, such as Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call, to encourage an understanding of the persistent force of American mythology, but also to transcend type so that they emerge as quintessentially human figures grappling with circumstances beyond their control. McMurtry portrays with depth and insight the conundrums of the modern moment and its relation to heritage, and he deals as well with the intensities of the human mind as it negotiates with a complex and sometimes indifferent world. 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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a McMurtry, Larry $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a McMurtry, Larry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00032479 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM $x General. $x General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a PERFORMING ARTS $x Screenwriting. $x Screenwriting. $2 bisacsh 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Frye, Steven, author. $t Understanding Larry McMurtry. $d Columbia : The University of South Carolina Press, 2017 $z 9781611177633 $w (DLC) 2016054681 830 0 $a Understanding contemporary American literature. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180703025327.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180125073330.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3A86867A475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search