Lone Star literature : from the Red River to the Rio Grande / edited by Don Graham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Graham, Don, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Texas.

American literature.

Texas.

Texas--Literary collections.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

733 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2003]

Summary:

The biggest collection of writing about Texas yet assembled. A VAST LAND combining the West, the South, and the Border, small dusty towns and gleaming modern cities. Texas has a history and identity all its own, and a mythology bigger than the Lone Star State itself. In this anthology. Don Graham has rounded up a comprehensive collection of writings that provides an overview of the diversity and excellence of Texas literature and reveals its vital contribution to America's literary landscape: from early accounts of life on the wild frontier told by the likes of Andy Adams and J. Frank Dobie to contemporary fiction by such well-known Texan authors as Larry McMurtry and Sandra Cisneros, as well as recent nonfiction by Molly Ivins, Mary Karr, Robert Caro, and Kinky Friedman. The result is a sometimes rowdy, always artful panorama of fable and truth, humor and pathos--all growing out of the state that continues to stimulate the collective imagination like no other.

Contents:

A dry drive / Andy Adams

Headed for the setting sun / James Emmit McCauley

from Adventures of a ballad hunter / John A. Lomax

Art and the bronco / O. Henry

The stone ranch / Sallie Reynolds Matthews

The Texans touch the plains / Walter Prescott Webb

Graveyard of the cowman's hopes / J. Evetts Haley

from The wind / Dorothy Scarborough

The bride / Hallie Crawford Stillwell

from My first thirty years / Gertrude Beasley

Bogged shadows / J. Frank Dobie

The girl at Cabe Ranch / A.C. Greene

The last running / John Graves

I'm bound to follow the longhorn cows / Dave Hickey

The grave / Katherine Anne Porter

Hold autumn in your hand / George Sessions Perry

from Adventures with a Texas naturalist / Roy Bedichek

Hangerman John / William A. Owens

from No quittin' sense / C.C. White

A voice from the woods / William Humphrey

The way it was, Southeast Texas, 1915 / Bill Brett

The sad irons / Robert A. Caro

The saviour of the bees / Robert Flynn

The school bus / Mary Ladd Gavell

from Southwest / John Houghton Allen

The hammon and the beans / Américo Peredes

Exile / Benjamin Alire Sáenz

An El Paso idyll / Pat Carr

Peace Grove / Ray Gonzalez

The death mask of Pancho Villa / Dagoberto Gilb

North of the big river / Elmer Kelton

Commerce Street / Jim Sanderson

The portrait / Toḿas Rivera

The gulf oil-can Santa Claus / Rolando Hinojosa-Smith

Whores / James Crumley

from The last picture show / Larry McMurtry

A guide to some small border airports / Peter LaSalle

La fabulosa : a Texas operetta / Sandra Cisneros

from The gay place / Billy Lee Brammer

from Strange peaches / Edwin Shrake

Something happens / Lawrence Wright

Who was Jack Ruby? / Gary Cartwright

How I solved the Kennedy assassination / Joe Bob Briggs

I bought a little city / Donald Barthelme

Redfish / Rick Bass

Bad girls / Harryette Mullen

The battle of the Alamo / Rafael Castillo

from A prince of a fellow / Shelby Hearon

My brother is a cowboy / Carolyn Osborn

The scapegoat / James Hoggard

A train to catch / Clay Reynolds

Tomorrow we smile / Naomi Shihab Nye

Family and food / Betsy Berry

Leaping Leo / Pat Ellis Taylor

from The liars' club / Mary Karr

Playing cowboy / Larry L. King

The ballad of the urban cowboy / Aaron Latham

Metamorphosis no. 5 / Don Webb

What Texas means to me / Stephen Harrigan

Why Texas is the way it is / Betty Sue Flowers

Texas women : true grit and all the rest / Molly Ivins

Social studies / Kinky Friedman

The last history ever of fatigue in Texas / William C. Gruben.

ISBN:

0393050432

OCLC:

52799582