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McMurtry, Larry Paradise New York Simon & Schuster 2001 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The Pulitzer Prize winning author presents an inviting travel book and an insightful reflection on his parents' marriage and his his most original and personal to date. In 1999 he set off for a trip to Tahiti and the South Sea Islands in an old fashioned tub of a cruise boat, at a time when his mother was slipping towards a paradise of her own. Opening up to her son in her final days, his mother makes a stunning revelation of a previous marriage and sends him on a journey of an entirely different kind. Vividly moving and with infinite care, he paints a portrait of his parents' marriage against the harsh, violent landscape of West Texas, it is their roots, laced with hard work, bitter disappointment, the puritan ethic, which he challenges by travelling to Tahiti and begins to answer some of the questions as to what paradise is. Price: 12.00 GBP
McMurtry, Larry and Ossana, Diana Zeke and Ned London Orion 1997 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall First UK edition. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. A collaborative novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author McMurtry which is set in the Cherokee Districts of Indian Territory not long after the American Civil War, where Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors, living men whose story is not merely legend, but history, their fates a consequence of the brutal US government policies which produced the Trail of Tears. *** NOT EX LIB *** Price: 9.00 GBP
