Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West. WithBy turns droll, stark, wry, or raunchy, this peripatetic novel&will satisfy many readers who long for more from literary icon McMurtry.Larry McMurtry possesses one of the most engaging, tempting-to-imitate voices in contemporary American fiction, a voice so smooth and mellow you can almost hear the ice clink against the glass as he talks.[In this ballad in prose, as McMurtry describes his latest book, he paints the familiar historical characters in unfamiliar ways& lovely.A deftly narrated, often comically subversive work of fiction& IfThose who enjoy McMurtrys rueful humor and understated tone of elegiac melancholy will devour the book in one setting.[A] wildly worthy addition to the best art books of 2014&A