HAPPY TRAILS
Jun 08, 2021
3 minutes
often said he was surprised by the passionate response to — both his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1985 novel, and the epic 1989 miniseries adaptation starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones. Indeed, during a 2006 interview with , when an interviewer noted that both the novel and the miniseries were widely credited with reviving the classic myth of the American West, McMurtry responded: “I always thought of as anti-mythic. That’s not the way it was received, of course. Authors very rarely have any control over how their books are read or perceived. But I always thought rather than celebratory.”
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