McMurtry has something special going for him. "McMurtry has the faults of a strong but careless writer like Mailer, but they are easily forgiven in this particular novel, which seems so thoroughly a type of 'American' classic without any of the painless charm
Almost as though acknowledging the inability of Patsy, et al., to sustain so long a book, he shores it up with detail." "McMurtry simply doesn't know how to turn off his electric typewriter. Some of the transitions as he works from one scene to the next are noticeable some of the writing could be smoother. McMurtry is not exactly a virtuoso at the typewriter. Trio on a raccoon hunt, or catching coyotes by roping them, or butchering hogs." And I couldn't have been happier going along with this disarming
"'Leaving Cheyenne' is brightened and warmed by the author's grasp of his setting and by his ear for the music of talk in Archer County. What's more, his promise is the kind that lasts." " is already well up among the most promising first novelists who have appeared this year. A Texan Who Likes to Deflate The Legends of the Golden West (1988)Ī New York Times Interview With Larry McMurtry.Ī New York Times Magazine profile of the author.
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