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| Authors | Larry McMurtry |
| Narrator | Doug Ordunio |
| Fiction Genre | Biography & Autobiography • Literary Criticism |
| Fiction Subgenre | Unknown |
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Bernstein, Richard, New York Times: "McMurtry's meeting with Benjamin's mind in the Texas flatlands is emblematic of the mysteriousness of personal outcomes, and in that way Benjamin serves as an evocative point of departure for McMurtry's examination of his own literary itinerary. This is an engaging idea, and McMurtry is an engaging writer. Still, his memoir is not easy to get a bead on. It meanders; it picks up themes and then picks up other themes, but it often doesn't get to a point....[It] has its charms, and occasionally...it is more than charming; it is illuminating. But McMurtry's memoir never sheds its quality of drift, and it leaves the reader longing for a stronger theme, greater narrative punch." |
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Format: Audio - Audio Cassette
Publisher: Books on Tape (November 01, 2000) Measurements: 7.5"(h) x 4.5"(w) x 1"(d), 0.35 lbs. ISBN: 9780736649490 |
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| In the summer of 1980, in the Archer City Dairy Queen, while nursing a lime Dr. Pepper (a delicacy strictly local, unheard of even in the next Dairy Queen down the road--Olney's, eighteen miles south--but easily obtainable by anyone willing to buy a lime and a Dr. Pepper), I opened a book called ILLUMINATIONS and read Walter Benjamin's essay "The Storyteller," nominally a study of or reflection on the stories of Nikolay Leskov, but really (I came to feel, after several rereadings) an examination, and a profound one, of the growing obsolescence of what might be called practical memory and the consequent diminution of the power of oral narrative in our twentieth-century lives. | |
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