Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond.
by McMurtry, Larry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0684854961
- ISBN 13
- 9780684854960
- Seller
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Langley, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Simon & Schuster,, 1999.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In this lucid, work of nonfiction -- as close to an autobiography as his readers are likely to get -- Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become. Using as a springboard an essay by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin that he first read in Archer City's Dairy Queen, McMurtry examines the small-town way of life that big oil and big ranching have nearly destroyed. He praises the virtues of everything from a lime Dr. Pepper to the lost art of oral storytelling, and describes the brutal effect of the sheer vastness and emptiness of the Texas landscape on Texans, the decline of the cowboy, and the reality and the myth of the frontier. McMurtry writes frankly and with deep feeling about his own experiences as a writer, a parent, and a heart patient, and he deftly lays bare the raw material that helped shape his life's work: the creation of a vast, ambitious, fictional panorama of Texas in the past and the present.
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- Bookseller
- Gregor Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28387
- Title
- Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond.
- Author
- McMurtry, Larry
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0684854961
- ISBN 13
- 9780684854960
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1999.
- Keywords
- literature
Terms of Sale
Gregor Rare Books
All items are first US or UK printings unless otherwise noted. Signatures are guaranteed authentic. Items are subject to prior sale and returnable within 7 days of receipt if not as described. We accept all major credit cards and personal checks. Postage is extra. We ship Priority insured mail: $8.00 for the first item and $4.00 for each additional. International shipping will be billed at cost. Washington State residents will be charged 8.4% sales tax.
About the Seller
Gregor Rare Books
Biblio member since 2007
Langley, Washington
About Gregor Rare Books
Gregor Rare Books is an open shop in the beautiful waterfront village of Langley, WA on Whidbey Island. We offer a fine selection of Distinctive Literature in the First Edition. Our shop hours are Wednesday through Sunday 10 am to 5 pm pst.
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