Book cover for Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry

Horseman, Pass By

2018 Released
192 Pages
3-4 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
Hardback Unavailable
LiverightISBN 9781631493560

“Every line is poetry down and dirty in the mud, right where it belongs.” — Publishers Weekly

A stunning literary debut, Horseman, Pass By (1961) exhibits the “full-blooded Western genius” (Publishers Weekly) that would come to define McMurtry’s incomparable sensibility. In the dusty north Texas town of Thalia, young Lonnie Bannon quietly endures the pangs of maturity as a persistent rivalry between his grandfather and step-uncle, Hud, festers, and a deadly disease spreads among their cattle like wildfire.

Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry (1936–2021) was the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lived in Archer City, Texas.

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