Texas Bound:Bk I: 19 Texas Stories (Southwest Life & Letters) (Southwest Life and Letters) - Softcover

This lavish spread of literary entertainment features nineteen stories selected from the first two seasons of "Texas Bound," part of the "Arts and Letters Live" literary series presented at the Dallas Museum of Art by the Museum and the Friends of the Dallas Public Library. From pickup trucks and prairie skies to rhinestone cowboys and glittering skylines, these stories explore the Lone Star Stateboth its terrain and its state of mind. The volume includes stories by well-known Texas authors such as Larry McMurtry, Rick Bass, and Larry L. King, as well as stories by Texans with less familiar names. In "There Will Be Peace in Korea" Larry McMurtry catches the gritty realities of life in a West Texas town on the night before a young man goes off to war. William Goyen's "The Texas Principessa" is a hilarious tale about a Houston dry goods heiress who goes to Venice to marry an impoverished Italian prince. Reginald McKnight's "The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas" depicts a young black boy in a Waco school who comes face-to-face with his own version of racism. "Old Enough" by Mary K. Flatten is about love and loss in Austin, narrated by a woman on whom the emotional tables have been turned. The anthology also features stories by Lee Merrill Byrd, Diane DeSanders, Robert Flynn, A.C. Greene, William Hauptman, Shelby Hearon, Tomas Rivera, Annette Sanford, C.W. Smith, Lynna Williams, Bryan Woolley, and Lawrence Wright. Whether the setting is a country cemetery near Chillicothe, a 50s-style burger joint in Dallas's Deep Ellum, or a Baptist youth camp in Oklahoma, the stories depict people who are "Texas Bound"bound to the state, bound for it, or bound together by it."