Larry McMurtry's the Last Picture Show
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"Set in a small, dusty Texas town, The Last Picture Show is one of Larry McMurtry's most memorable novels, and the basis for the enormously popular movie of the same name. In this volume in Ig's acclaimed Bookmarked series, award-winning author Steve Yarbrough shares with us the importance of this seminal novel on his life and work as he explores the parallels of coming of age as a writer in the American south, like Larry McMurtry"--Back cover.
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