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Mr. McMurtry wrote “Lonesome Dove” as an anti-western, a rebuke of sorts to the romantic notions of dime-store novels and an exorcism of the false ghosts in the work of writers likeLouis L’Amour. “I’m a critic of the myth of the cowboy,” he told an interviewer in 1988. “I...
The ending of August: Osage County is similar toHud, based on a novel by Larry McMurtry (Horseman, Pass By). In both cases, a mean person drives everyone away and winds up alone at a huge house in the middle of nowhere, America, surrounded by the ghosts of cattle-raising. Except for...