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The Last Picture Show

novel by McMurtry

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  • In Larry McMurtry

    …small-town life are examined in The Last Picture Show (1966; film 1971); McMurtry received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay. The novel was the first in a series that he continued with Texasville (1987), Duane’s Depressed (1999), When the Light Goes (2007), and Rhino Ranch (2009). McMurtry’s frontier epic,…

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