The Last Picture Show
Published on 20. March 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-63149-359-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Last Picture Show (1966) is both a rambunctious coming-of-age story and an elegy to a forlorn Texas town trying to keep its one movie house alive. Adapted into the Oscar-winning film, this masterpiece immortalizes the lives of the hardscrabble residents who are threatened by the inexorable forces of the modern world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
Publishing group
W W Norton & Co Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 207 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
208 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63149-359-1 (9781631493591)
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Larry McMurtry was an award-winning novelist, essayist, and avid bookseller and collector, who received an Academy Award with cowriter Diana Ossana for the screenplay of Brokeback Mountain and wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove.