Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen
Reflections at Sixty and Beyond
by Larry McMurtry
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Simon & Schuster |
Date 1999 |
Price $2.58 |
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Publisher Notes
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove presents a revealing memoir of his personal odyssey from rancher's son to critically acclaimed novelist, in an intriguing reminiscence set against the vast and colorful backdrop of the Lone Star State, past and present.
Media Reviews
"It's a peculiar effort--part memoir, part commonplace book, part tour de force."
First Line
In the summer of 1980, in the Archer City Dairy Queen, while nursing a lime Dr. Pepper (a delicacy strictly local, unheard of even in the next Dairy Queen down the road--Olney's, eighteen miles south--but easily obtainable by anyone willing to buy a lime and a Dr. Pepper), I opened a book called ILLUMINATIONS and read Walter Benjamin's essay "The Storyteller," nominally a study of or reflection on the stories of Nikolay Leskov, but really (I came to feel, after several rereadings) an examination, and a profound one, of the growing obsolescence of what might be called practical memory and the consequent diminution of the power of oral narrative in our twentieth-century lives.
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