Larry McMurtry

Still Wild (eBook, ePUB)

Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Pre

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 imaginationone 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439128985
• Artikelnr.: 37912783

Autorenporträt

Larry McMurtry, Editor

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
Wallace Stegner, Buglesong
Dave Hickey, The Closed Season
Dao Strom, Chickens
Dagoberto Gilb, Romero's Shirt
William Hauptman, Good Rockin' Tonight
Jack Kerouac, The Mexican Girl
Ron Hansen, True Romance
Diana Ossana, White Line Fever
Robert Boswell, Glissando
Tom McGuane, Dogs
Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible
Max Apple, Gas Stations
Mark Jude Poirier, Cul-de-sacs
Rick Bass, Mahatma Joe
Jon Billman, Indians
Richard Ford, Rock Springs
Raymond Carver, The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off
Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
Leslie Marmon Silko, Lullaby
William H. Gass, The Pedersen Kid