RIP Larry McMurtry, prolific novelist/screenwriter of Lonesome Dove & Brokeback Mountain, demythologized the American West with unromantic depictions

[basquebromance]

i've read all his books. RIP

Larry McMurtry, Novelist And Screenwriter Of The West, Has Died At Age 84

In over 30 novels and across dozens of screenplays, nonfiction works and memoirs, McMurtry became a beloved yet unsentimental chronicler of the American West.

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[basquebromance]

"I’m sorry to hear that the brilliant novelist and sceenwriter Larry McMurty passed away. I got to know him a bit when I was cast in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, a movie that truly stands on its own. Saying his words were easy because they were so real, they felt natural and it showed on the screen. All of us who worked on that film knew that we were making something special. His writings brought out the gamut of emotions to all that were lucky to behold them." - Jeff Bridges