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Larry McMurtry: A Life Audiobook, by Tracy Daugherty Play Audiobook Sample

Larry McMurtry: A Life Audiobook

Larry McMurtry: A Life Audiobook, by Tracy Daugherty Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Matt Godfrey Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 13.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 10.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798889565376

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

31

Longest Chapter Length:

57:43 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

17 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

38:51 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

4

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Publisher Description

From Tracy Daugherty, the author of the critically acclaimed Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable Book) and the New York Times bestseller The Last Love Song, comes the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry.

In more than forty books, during a career that spanned more than sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains’ keenest witness since Willa Cather and Wallace Stegner.

Tracy Daugherty’s Larry McMurtry: A Life traces his origins as one of the last American writers who had direct contact with this country’s pioneer traditions. It follows his astonishing career as a bestselling writer, a Pulitzer Prize‒winning novelist, and an Academy Award‒winning screenwriter. Many of McMurtry’s books and the movies made from them were groundbreaking and genre-busting. His beloved Western epic Lonesome Dove has been recognized as an American classic, while the film version of his novel The Last Picture Show is regularly listed as among the finest American movies ever made. In addition to his writing career, McMurtry was a public intellectual and a passionate and beloved bookseller.

A sweeping and insightful look at a versatile, one-of-a-kind American writer, this first-ever biography is a must-read for all Larry McMurtry fans.  

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About Tracy Daugherty

Tracy Daugherty (he/him) is the author of several literary biographies, several novels and short story collections, a memoir, a book of personal essays, a collection of essays on writing, and a novella collection. His 2009 biography of Donald Barthelme, Hiding Man, was a named a notable book of the year by the New York Times and New Yorker. His 2015 biography of Joan Didion, The Last Love Song, was a New York Times bestseller. His work has been recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. At Oregon State University he helped found the MFA program in creative writing. He was born and raised in Texas.

About Matt Godfrey

Soneela Nankani is an award-winning narrator with over three hundred titles in many different genres including Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, and Nonfiction. She has garnered sixteen Earphones Awards, nominations for Audie and SOVAS awards, and was recently awarded AudioFile magazine’s Golden Voice Lifetime Achievement Honor. Her audiobooks have been featured in Best Audiobooks lists by AudioFile magazine and the Washington Post, among others. In her spare time, she loves to read (yes, really), learn languages, try new recipes, and travel. She lives in the DC area with her husband and two mischievous daughters.