‘My favourite Western writers embraced style over melodrama, foregrounded Native American culture and explored the lives of women. Surely Larry McMurtry wasn’t for me.
As it happens, this misapprehension plagued McMurtry for his whole career.’
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McMurtry bemoans the fact that readers take his characters at face value and misidentify cowboy selfishness as heroism...
