Larry L. King: A Writer's Life in Letters Or Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye Advances to Bestseller

Dec. 22, 2012 - PRLog -- Larry L. King, a writer and dramatist died at the age of 83 in a retirement home in Washington, D.C., where he had spend his last six months according to his wife Barbara Blaine.

King became famous after Playboy magazine published a funny article about the closing of a popular whorehouse in Texas.

Before he wrote the 1979 rowdy musical comedy Broadway hit The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, King worked a variety of jobs, leaving a trail of sometimes funny, often bilious letters to editors, writers, politicians and assorted others.

These letters have been published as A Writer's Life in Letters  Or  Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye Advances to Bestseller: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0875652034/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=damego-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0875652034

Publishers Weekly says about the book: "Spanning the years 1954 to 1999, this collection of correspondence follows King as he works as a congressional assistant to Jim Wright and a lobbyist in Washington, where he witnesses the stunned, slightly crazed reaction to the assassination of JFK by the Texas congressional delegation; as a novelist (The One-Eyed Man); playwright (The Night Hank Williams Died); essayist and cultural commentator (Confessions of a White Racist, which earned him an enthusiastic letter of praise from Maya Angelou); Harper's editor under Willie Morris; and New York carouser who hobnobbed with the East Coast literati while remaining fiercely proud of his West Texas roots."

Publishers Weekly continues it's description with: "An epistolary autobiography of sorts, this unbowdlerized scrapbook of rants, wisecracks, stories, scrapes and reminiscences lets us watch King as he resourcefully reinvents himself. What saves this selected correspondence from becoming a whiny, defensive, extended ego trip are King's jibes at William Buckley ("the Rightest in residence of New York City"), Harvard lecturer John Kenneth Galbraith ("he puts me to sleep: drones on in a monotone..."), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ("too goddamn wordy"), Norman Mailer, Nelson Rockefeller and other targets. At their best, these letters are brash, funny, pugnacious and charged with their author's renegade energy. "

Larry L. King's book,A Writer's Life in Letters or Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye, advanced to best seller status on Amazon.com within a few hours of the news story hitting the wires. The book is almost sold out at the time of writing.

It is available here: http://16q.com/x/LarryLKing.php