The Last Picture Show - Softcover

McMurtry, Larry

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ISBN 10: 014005183X ISBN 13: 9780140051834

Publisher: Penguin, 1979

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a powerful coming-of-age novel set in the American West. In Thalia, Texas, Larry McMurtry epitomizes small-town America and through characters reintroduced in Texasville and Duane's Depressed, captures the ecstasy and heartbreak of adolescence.
The Last Picture Show is one of Larry McMurtry's most memorable novels, and the basis for the enormously popular movie of the same name. Set in a small, dusty, Texas town, The Last Picture Show introduced the characters of Jacy, Duane, and Sonny: teenagers stumbling toward adulthood, discovering the beguiling mysteries of sex and the even more baffling mysteries of love. Populated by a wonderful cast of eccentrics and animated by McMurtry's wry and raucous humor, The Last Picture Show is a wild, heartbreaking, and poignant novel that resonates with the magical passion of youth.

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Review:

"The Boston Globe"

There aren't many writers around who are as much fun to read as Larry McMurtry.

"The New York Times Book Review"

McMurtry is an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold; the sexual encounters are sad, funny, touching, sometimes horrifying, but always honest, always human.

"Los Angeles Times"

McMurtry can transform ordinary words into highly lyrical, poetic passages. He presents human dramas with sympathy and compassion that make us care about his characters in ways that most novelists can't.

"The Boston Globe"There aren't many writers around who are as much fun to read as Larry McMurtry.

"The New York Times Book Review"McMurtry is an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold; the sexual encounters are sad, funny, touching, sometimes horrifying, but always honest, always human.

"Los Angeles Times"McMurtry can transform ordinary words into highly lyrical, poetic passages. He presents human dramas with sympathy and compassion that make us care about his characters in ways that most novelists can't.

"Los Angeles Times" McMurtry can transform ordinary words into highly lyrical, poetic passages. He presents human dramas with sympathy and compassion that make us care about his characters in ways that most novelists can't.

"The Boston Globe" There aren't many writers around who are as much fun to read as Larry McMurtry.

"The New York Times Book Review" McMurtry is an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold; the sexual encounters are sad, funny, touching, sometimes horrifying, but always honest, always human.

The New York Times Book Review McMurtry is an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold; the sexual encounters are sad, funny, touching, sometimes horrifying, but always honest, always human.

From the Back Cover:

In this book, McMurtry brilliantly evokes the wild, lonely, heartbreaking condition called adolescence. Sonny Crawford and his friend Duane, high-school seniors in the small Texas dustbowl town of thalia, restlessly mark timeat the poolhall and the picture show.

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