Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond Paperback - 2001
by Larry McMurtry
In a brilliant work of nonfiction--as close to an autobiography as his readers are likely to get--Larry McMurtry paints a clever but revealing self-portrait as he chronicles the story of his family and the larger story of Texas itself.
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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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- Title Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond
- Author Larry McMurtry
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Touchstone E
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
- Date 2001-08-07
- ISBN 9780684870199 / 0684870193
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Geographic Orientation: Texas
- Library of Congress subjects Texas, Novelists, American - 20th century
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- New York Times, 07/29/2001, Page 20
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