Del 0 - Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University
Turn Out the Lights
Chronicles of Texas During the 80s and 90s
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
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Whether the subject is Jack Ruby, Willie Nelson, or his own leukemia-stricken son Mark, when it comes to looking at the world through another person's eyes, nobody does it better than Gary Cartwright. For over twenty-five years, readers of Texas Monthly have relied on Cartwright to tell the stories behind the headlines with pull-no-punches honesty and wry humor. His reporting has told us not just what's happened over three decades in Texas, but, more importantly, what we've become as a result. This book collects seventeen of Cartwright's best Texas Monthly articles from the 1980s and 1990s, along with a new essay, "My Most Unforgettable Year," about the lasting legacy of the Kennedy assassination. He ranges widely in these pieces, from the reasons for his return to Texas after a New Mexican exile to profiles of Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. Along the way, he strolls through San Antonio's historic King William District; attends a Dallas Cowboys old-timers reunion and the Holyfield vs. Foreman fight; visits the front lines of Texas' new range wars; gets inside the heads of murderers, gamblers, and revolutionaries; and debunks Viagra miracles, psychic surgery, and Kennedy conspiracy theories. In Cartwright's words, these pieces all record "the renewal of my Texas-ness, a rediscovery of Texas after returning home."
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2000-11-01
- Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
- Vikt454 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieSouthwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University
- Antal sidor300
- FörlagUniversity of Texas Press
- ISBN9780292712263