My book selection was based on knowing a little about Larry McMurtry. Not that I am a western fiction fan but he seems to have a wide range. (So my apologies - it is a challenging read.) Although much of his prose and perspective on storytelling is beautiful - it is a bit of a peculiar book.
This sounded like a fun read: 
"Do you really want to listen to a cranky old man ramble on about his childhood, his heart surgery, his hobbies, his son, and the way things, in general, aren't what they used to be? It turns out you do. InWalter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Larry McMurtry comes the old pardner, and the result is a powerful elegy for the lost spaces in American life. He takes as his starting point an afternoon he spent at the Dairy Queen in Archer City, Texas."
Larry Jeff McMurtry (born June 3, 1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas.[1] He is known for his 1975 novel Terms of Endearment, his 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, a historical saga that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive their cattle from the Rio Grande to a new home in the frontier of Montana, and for co-writing the adapted screenplay for Brokeback Mountain. Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries and both the films of Terms of Endearment and Brokeback Mountain won Academy Awards.
McMurtry's award-winning novel The Last Picture Show was a widely acclaimed movie. He adapted Hud for the screen.
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