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. Adapted into the Oscar-winning film, this masterpiece immortalizes the lives of the hardscrabble residents who are threatened by the inexorable forces of the modern world.
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Originally published in 1966 by Dial Press, New York.

Product details

ISBN
9781631493591
Published
2018-03-20
Publisher
WW Norton & Co; Liveright Publishing Corporation
Weight
200 gr
Height
208 mm
Width
140 mm
Thickness
18 mm
Age
01, G
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
256

Biographical note

Larry McMurtry is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and avid bookseller and collector, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay of Brokeback Mountain with cowriter Diana Ossana. Awarded in 2014 the National Humanities Medal for his body of work, his novels include Lonesome Dove and, most recently, The Last Kind Words Saloon. He lives in Archer City, Texas.