Larry McMurtry's award winning novels have redefined not only the literature of the west, but also the essential myths with which the west is associated. Readers were initiated into the world of the modern cowboy with McMurtry's first novel Horseman Pass By. Nearly 35 years later McMurtry revisits his hometown project with his latest update on the characters who populated The Last Picture Show and Texasville in his most recent novel Duane's Depressed....

An autobiographical account of a Negro author's childhood and youth in the South. "In this once sensational, now classic autobiography, Richard Wright tells us with unforgettable fury and eloquence exactly what he thought and felt as a "black boy" in the Jim Crow South ... Wright's powerful account is at once an indictment, and unashamed confession, a poignant and disturbing record"--From back cover.