Books

Larry McMurtry’s fascinating and surprisingly intimate memoir of his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare antiquarian books is “a necessary and marvelous gift” ( San Antonio Express-News ). Spanning a lifetime of literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded at a wide variety of genres, from coming-of-age novels, such as The Last Picture Show ; to essays, like those in In a Narrow Grave ; to the reinvention of the “Western” on a grand scale like the Pulitzer Prize–winnin