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    Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Pre
    Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Pre
    Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Pre
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    Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Pre

    By Larry McMurtry

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    Larry McMurtry, the preeminent chronicler of the American West, celebrates the best of contemporary Western short fiction, introducing a stellar collection of twenty stories that represent, in various ways, the coming-of-age of the legendary American frontier.

    Featuring a veritable Who's Who of the century's most distinctive writers, this collection effectively departs from the standard superstars of the Western genre. McMurtry has chosen a refreshing range of work that, when taken as a whole, depicts the evolution and maturation of Western writing over several decades. The featured tales are not so concerned with the American West of history and geography as they are with the American West of the imagination—one that is alternately comic, gritty, individual, searing, and complex. Including authors such as Jack Kerouac, Wallace Stegner, Raymond Carver, Annie Proulx, and Diana Ossana, this collection captures the real Western canon like no other.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateApr 24, 2012
    ISBN9781439128985
    Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Pre
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    Larry McMurtry

    Larry McMurtry (1936–2021) was the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lived in Archer City, Texas.

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