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Tracy Daugherty
With heart and humour, Tales from the Bayou City chronicles fifteen years in the life of Houston, Texas, as the city negotiates volatile changes in economic health, race relations, immigration…
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Tells the story of two larger-than-life figures - George Harrison met Muhammad Ali - at a momentous time. A unique blend of biography and cultural history, this book goes to…
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A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry.
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In ‘Cotton County’, the first of the dual memoirs in The Land and the Days, acclaimed author Tracy Daugherty describes the forces that shape us: the ‘rituals of our regions’…
Like the other characters in Tracy Daugherty’s masterful collection, he moves through spaces at once sacred and spoiled, within cities, deserts, and other strange environments, reckoning, taking soundings, trying to…
Daugherty illuminates his most vital subject yet in this first biography of Joseph Heller. His life was filled with romantic indiscretions, but he was perhaps more famous for his friendships–he…
High Skies recounts the collision of devastating weather, Cold War suspicion, tense race relations, and the unintended consequences of good intentions in a small West Texas town.
Considers the principles of literary art in a series of essays that focus on the nature of artistic vision and the creative individual’s relationship to the world. The book reads…
This short novel explores Willa Cather’s friendship with journalist Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, tracing the aesthetic arguments that shaped much of their relationship: art versus politics and tradition versus innovation.
The novellas and stories in American Originals convey the power of the West Texas desert to swallow people - literally, or through the rituals of labour, or through the raptures…
Explore the evolution of astronomy from Dante to Einstein, as seen through the eyes of trailblazing Victorian astronomer Mary Acworth Evershed
In The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, delves deep into…
Tracy Edgar Daugherty
This book is a close study of Miss Burney’s technical proficiency as a novelist. It describes the techniques she used to create point of view, characterization, tempo, and plot construction…
