Books: A Memoir
Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008: It wasn't enough for Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry to become one of the most prolific, bestselling, and beloved of American writers.  Besides writing nearly forty books, including the Pultizer Prize-winning novelLonesome Dove, he has emerged as one this nation's greatest bookmen. InBooks: A Memoir, McMurtry shares with readers his lifelong passion and dogged pursuit of books.  In short, gem-like chapters, he paints a fascinating picture of the landscape of American book culture and book selling over a 50-year period.  The story is as dusty, musty and crusty as any of McMurtry's fictionalized Westerns, and filled with characters who seem like they stepped out of central casting.  Whether you love McMurtry, books, bookstores or a combination thereof, you'll find something to love inBooks: A Memoir. Settle in with a cuppa coffee and let McMurtry kindle your passion for physical books. --Lauren Nemroff