Лучшие книги Лэрри МакМартри

В маленьком техасском городке живут бывшие рейнджеры, отважные хранители границ и спокойствия еще совсем юных Соединенных Штатов, и их друзья-ковбои. Разные, они схожи между собой в неистребимом духе романтики, заставляющем их, оставив спокойную жизнь, отправиться на север, где их ждут неосвоенные земли, - через стужу и зной, реки и пустыни, набеги бандитов и нападения диких животных. Страдая, погибая, но не сдаваясь, они преодолевают этот путь.

Читателю предстоит увлекательная встреча с героями книги - мужественными рейнджерами и ковбоями, пионерами освоения Дикого Запада. Они определились в жизни, осели на местах, обзавелись семьями, но дух авантюризма, страсть к приключениям продолжают жить в их сердцах.

В маленьком техасском городке живут бывшие рейнджеры, отважные хранители границ и спокойствия еще совсем юных Соединенных Штатов, и их друзья-ковбои. Разные, они схожи между собой в неистребимом духе романтики, заставляющем их, оставив спокойную жизнь, отправиться на север, где их ждут неосвоенные земли, - через стужу и зной, реки и пустыни, набеги бандитов и нападения диких животных. Страдая, погибая, но, не сдаваясь, они преодолевают этот путь.

Молодые авантюристы Вудроу Калл и Гас Маккрае делают свой жизненный выбор и вступают в отряд рейнджеров. Дорога к богатству и славе никогда не бывает легкой. Но суровые испытания, стычки с индейцами, голод и жажда, плен, гибель товарищей и предательство не сломили дух отважных и чистых сердцем искателей приключений.

On the wild Texas frontier where barbarism and civilization come in many forms, Rangers Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call are pitched into the long, bitter, bloody fighting under the command of Captain Inish Scull. When Scull's favourite horse is stolen by the Comanches, he decides to track him down, leaving Gus and Call in charge. However, on their return to Austin, Gus is greeted by the news that his sweetheart is to marry another man and Call finds that the town's most notorious woman is desperate to settle down with him and become respectable. When Scull's wealthy wife demands that her errant husband be brought home, with feelings akin to…

В книге есть все присущие вестерну атрибуты - схватки с индейцами, драки ковбоев в салунах. Это яркое повествование знатока о быте пионеров освоения Запада.

Роман повествует о сложных, интересных и забавных отношениях между матерью и дочерью. Аврора Гринуэй, "веселая вдова", все свои полвека с лишним занималась единственным, захватывающим и увлекательным делом: привлечением на свою орбиту возможно большего числа поклонников. Ее бурные и краткие, либо, напротив, долгие и глубокие романы служили своеобразным укором ее дочери Эмме.

Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, Brokeback Mountain is her masterpiece.

Brokeback Mountain was originally published in The New Yorker. It won the National Magazine Award, as well as an O. Henry Prize. Included in this volume is Annie Proulx's haunting story about the difficult, dangerous love affair between a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy. Also included is the celebrated screenplay for the major motion picture Brokeback Mountain, written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. All three writers have contributed essays on the process of adapting this critically acclaimed story for film.

Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning novel is a powerful, triumphant portrayal of the American West as it really was. From Texas to Montana, it follows cowboys on a grueling cattle drive through the wilderness.
It begins in the office of The Hat Creek Cattle Company of the Rio Grande.
It ends as a journey into the heart of every adventurer who ever lived…
More than a love story, more than an adventure, Lonesome Dove is an epic: a monumental novel which embraces the spirit of the last defiant wilderness of America.
Legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers - Lonesome Dove is the central, enduring American experience dramatically recreated in a magnificent story of heroism and love; of honour, loyalty and betrayal.
From the author of The Last Picture Show and Texasville, and screenplay writer of Brokeback Mountain, this is the third novel in the McMurtry's Lonesome Dove quartet, following on from Comanche Moon and prequels Streets of Laredo.

Страх остаться одной заставляет Джилл Пил, довольно успешно подвизающуюся в Голливуде на поприще режиссера, лихорадочно цепляться за любого их своих многочисленных приятелей. Впрочем, с двумя из них многолетняя связь перерастает в нечто похожее на дружбу. Потеряв их обоих, Джил приходит к неожиданному решению - снять фильм.

Легкие и необязательные, в духе шекспировских комедий, отношения, связывающие людей в романе Л.Макмертри, в конечном счете помогают главе безалаберного семейства Дуэйну Муру уяснить трудную и одновременно простейшую истину: любовь - это прежде всего верность и поддержка в трудную минуту.

In his most moving and richly comic contemporary novel since Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the modern West he created so masterfully in The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment. SOME CAN WHISTLE spins a tale of Hollywood glitz and Texas grit; of an extraordinary young woman and a murderous young man; and a middle-aged millionaire running head-on into the longings, joys and pathos of real life.

»In seinem großen Roman Buffalo Girls demonstriert Larry McMurtry seine ganze Virtuosität. Faszinierend seine Schilderung des abenteuerlichen Lebens von Calamity Jane. Fesselnd auch seine Beschreibung der harten Wirklichkeit des Wilden Westens. Ein Roman, ausgestattet mit packenden Charakteren: dem Ogalala- Indianer No Ears, den Mountain Men Jim Ragg und Bartle Bone, vor allem aber mit der rauhen, urwüchsigen, von den Höhen und Tiefen des Lebens gezeichneten Heldin, einer Persönlichkeit von der eruptiven Kraft eines Vulkans.« THE TIME »McMurtry auf dem Höhepunkt seines literarischen Schaffens!« NEWSDAY

This is Larry McMurtry's ballad in prose: his heartfelt tribute to a bygone era of the American West.
Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West. With The Last Kind Words Saloon, he returns to the vivid and unsparing portrait of the nineteenth-century and cowboy lifestyle made so memorable in his classic Lonesome Dove. Evoking the greatest characters and legends of the Old Wild West, McMurtry tells the story of the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.
Long Grass, Texas. Once hailed as heroes for their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge - more often with a mean look than a pistol - the taciturn Wyatt now idles away his time between bottles, while the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc is more adept at poker than extracting teeth. With the buffalo herds gone, the Comanche defeated, and vast swaths of the Great Plains enclosed by cattle ranches, Wyatt and Doc live on, even as the storied West that forged their myths disappears.
McMurtry traces the rich and varied friendship of the heroic pair from the town of Long Grass to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, then to Mobetie, Texas, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, culminating with the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral, rendered here in McMurtry's stark and peerless prose.
As harsh and beautiful, and as brutal and captivating as the open range it depicts, The Last Kind Words Saloon celebrates the genius of one of the most original American writers.

Larry McMurtry has clone more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West. With THE LAST KIND WORDS SALOON, he returns to the vivid and unsparing portrait of the nineteenth-century and cowboy lifestyle made so memorable in his classic Lonesome Dove. Evoking the greatest characters and legends of the Old Wild West, McMurtry tells the story of the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.
Long Grass, Texas. Once hailed as heroes for their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge - more often with a mean look than a pistol - the taciturn Wyatt now idles away his time between bottles, while the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc is more adept at poker than extracting teeth. With the buffalo herds gone, the Comanche defeated, and vast swaths of the Great Plains enclosed by cattle ranches, Wyatt and Doc live on, even as the storied West that forged their myths disappears.
McMurtry traces the rich and varied friendship of the heroic pair from the town of Long Grass to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, then to Mobetie, Texas, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, culminating with the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral, rendered here in McMurtry's stark and peerless prose.
As harsh and beautiful, and as brutal and captivating as the open range it depicts, THE LAST KIND WORDS SALOON celebrates the genius of one of the most original American writers.

Danny Deck, a promising young writer, is rapidly losing touch with everything that fostered his talent. He drifts from his native Texas to California and back, falling in love, looking for people to hold on to and for a place to settle down.

In a prolific life of singular literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded in a variety of genres: in coming-of-age novels like "The Last Picture Show"; in collections of essays like "In a Narrow Grave"; and in the reinvention of the Western on a grand scale in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "Lonesome Dove." Now, in "Books: A Memoir," McMurtry writes about his endless passion for books: as a boy growing up in a largely "bookless" world; as a young man devouring the vastness of literature with astonishing energy; as a fledgling writer and family man; and above all, as one of America's most prominent bookmen. He takes us on his journey to becoming an astute, adventurous book scout and collector who would eventually open stores of rare and collectible editions in Georgetown, Houston, and finally, in his previously "bookless" hometown of Archer City, Texas.In this work of extraordinary charm, grace, and good humor, McMurtry recounts his life as both a reader and a writer, how the countless books he has read worked to form his literary tastes, while giving us a lively look at the eccentrics who collect, sell, or simply lust after rare volumes. "Books: A Memoir "is like the best kind of diary -- full of McMurtry's wonderful anecdotes, amazing characters, engaging gossip, and shrewd observations about authors, book people, literature, and the author himself. At once chatty, revealing, and deeply satisfying, Books is, like McMurtry, erudite, life loving, and filled with excellent stories. It is a book to be savored and enjoyed again and again.

Book DescriptionThe biggest collection of writing about Texas yet assembled. A vast land combining the West, the South, and the Border, small dusty towns and gleaming modern cities, Texas has a history and identity all its own, and a mythology

The time is 1925. The place, St. Louis, Missouri. Charley Floyd, a good-looking, sweet-smiling country boy from Oklahoma, is about to rob his first armored car.
Written by Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry and his writing partner, Diana Ossana, Pretty Boy Floyd traces the wild career of this legendary American folk hero, a young man so charming that it's hard not to like him, even as he's robbing you at gunpoint. From the bank heists and shootings that make him Public Enemy Number One to the women who love him, from the glamour-hungry nation that worships him to the G-men who track Charley down, Pretty Boy Floyd is both a richly comic masterpiece and an American tragedy about the price of fame and the corruption of innocence.

Zeke and Ned is the story of Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors -- two proud, passionate men whose remarkable quest to carve a future out of Indian Territory east of the Arkansas River after the Civil War is not only history but legend. Played out against an American West governed by a brutal brand of frontier justice, this intensely moving saga brims with a rich cast of indomitable and utterly unforgettable characters such as Becca, Zeke's gallant Cherokee wife, and Jewel Sixkiller Proctor, whose love for Ned makes her a tragic heroine.
At once exuberant and poignant, bittersweet and brilliant, Zeke and Ned takes us deep into the hearts of two extraordinary men who were willing to go the distance for the bold vision they shared -- and for the women they loved.