Terms of Endearment

McMurtry, Larry

ISBN 10: 0451126513 / ISBN 13: 9780451126511

Published by Penguin Books Canada, Limited, Toronto, ON, Canada, 1983

About this Item

Light edgewear and some creasing of spine and covers, the interior pages have minor age-toning, otherwise a good reading copy.

Seller Inventory # X05656

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Terms of Endearment
• Publisher: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, Toronto, ON, Canada
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451126513
• ISBN 13: 9780451126511
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • .Fiction - General

About this title

Synopsis

Aurora Greenway is the kind of woman who makes the world turn around her - including her string of devoted suitors. Widowed, Aurora has an infant daughter, Emma, of whom she is at first overprotective. As Emma grows up, the relationship between mother and daughter is full of tension and disagreement - not least over Emma's choice of husband, who Aurora disapproves of.

Then, with the devastating discovery that Emma has cancer, Aurora slowly learns to adapt and compromise.

THE AUTHOR

Larry McMurtry was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1936. His father and eight uncles were all ranchers. McMurtry earned a masters degree from Rice University in 1960 and quickly rose to international fame as a premier American writer. In 1986 he won the Pulitzer Prize for LONESOME DOVE. He lives in Texas.

Review

Very special . . . very winning . . . it will make you laugh and cry (New York Times)

A vivid and richly detailed novel about ourselves and those we love (New Republic)

McMurtry at his best! He is one of the few male authors who can write convincingly from the woman's point of view (Newsday)

McMurtry is one of our best, and Terms of Endearment is one of his finest (Los Angeles Times)