The Last Picture Show: A Novel - 60th Anniversary Edition

A new generation discovers The Last Picture Show, “about as close to gem-like perfection as a novel can.” —Thomas Powers, from the new introduction.

Whereas Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove is universally hailed as the greatest novel of the Old West, The Last Picture Show is increasingly recognized as a standard bearer of contemporary Western fiction. First published in 1966, this elegiac masterpiece has been better known for the Academy Award-winning film that it spawned in 1971, but this new...