The Desert Rose - Hardcover

McMurtry, Larry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671461435 ISBN 13: 9780671461430

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1983

Synopsis

Harmony struggles to keep her job as a dancer in a Las Vegas casino and at the same time raise her daughter

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Review:

Warm and funny . . . The real triumph of the book is Harmony herself, an unabashed romantic whose optimism and tenderness refuse to wilt in this arid, unromantic setting . . . McMurtry can transform ordinary words into highly lyrical, poetic passages . . . and presents human dramas with a sympathy and compassion that make us care about his characters in ways that most novelists can't (Washington Post Book World)

Sad and sweet yet rigorously unsentimental. Mr McMurtry has the power to clutch the heart and also somehow to exhilarate (New Yorker)

The astounding thing about Harmony . . . is that she really does have a heart of gold, and despite everything, she is wholly believable, oddly moving, even lovable (Publishers Weekly)

Warm and funny . . . The real triumph of the book is Harmony herself, an unabashed romantic whose optimism and tenderness refuse to wilt in this arid, unromantic setting . . . McMurtry can transform ordinary words into highly lyrical, poetic passages . . . and presents human dramas with a sympathy and compassion that make us care about his characters in ways that most novelists can't (The Los Angeles Times)

It is quite impossible not to fall in love with Harmony while reading The Desert Rose. . . It is unquestionably one of his best novels . . . The Desert Rose is, in a quite unassuming way, a beautiful little book (The Washington Post Book World)

Book Description:

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove and Terms of Endearment

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0671461435
• ISBN 13: 9780671461430
• Binding: Hardcover