Uncovering the Untold Mysteries Behind Larry McMurtry’s Legendary Life in ‘Western Star’
It’s not Streitfeld’s mission to tackle that kind of scholarship. He has, however, laid the groundwork for deeper analysis by hinting at these questions and the iceberg beneath them and by demonstrating that discussion of McMurtry’s literary merit is going to be complicated and enriched by a discussion of films that were made from his novels.
Ultimately, the book Streitfeld has written is an entertaining and affectionate, though unsentimental, examination of a complicated writer with a complicated career.
