Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen

Author: Larry McMurtry
Edition: 1st Touchstone Ed
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0684870193

Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen : Reflections on Sixty and Beyond

In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction -- as close to an autobiography as his readers are likely to get -- Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become. Get Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen literature books for free.
Using as a springboard an essay by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin that he first read in Archer City's Dairy Queen, McMurtry examines the small-town way of life that big oil and big ranching have nearly destroyed. He praises the virtues of everything from a lime Dr. Pepper to the lost art of oral storytelling, and describes the brutal effect of the sheer vastness and emptiness of the Texas landscape on Texans, the decline of the cowboy, and the reality and the myth of the frontier. McMurtry write Check Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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