![]() ![]() took advantage of some free time to work on a novel before he had to start a job at his family’s ranch. ![]() ![]() In late May 1958 the freshly graduated B.A. Years later I learned how he came to write that novel, and I was mightily impressed. Larry, I soon discovered, was the hero of the English department of North Texas State College, in Denton, where I, like Larry before me, was majoring in English. Though I didn’t live on a ranch, the author, whose name was Larry McMurtry, apparently did. Horseman, pass by!”), but its subject, the hungers and frustrations of an adolescent male growing up in North Texas, I knew in my blood and bones. Yeats (“Cast a cold eye / On life, on death. Its title I recognized from my reading of W. For me, the most exciting book of 1961 was a slender first novel by a then-unknown Texas writer. ![]()
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