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By Larry McMurtry
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With Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the unforgettable Texas town and characters of one of his best-loved books, The Last Picture Show. This is a Texas-sized story brimming with home truths of the heart, and men and women we recognize, believe in, and care about deeply. Set in the post-oil-boom 1980s, Texasville brings us up to date with Duane, who's got an adoring dog, a sassy wife, a twelve-million-dollar debt, and a hot tub by the pool; Jacy, who's finished playing "Jungla" in Italian movies and who's returned to Thalia; and Sonny -- Duane's teenage rival for Jacy's affections -- who owns the car wash, the Kwik-Sackstore, and the video arcade.

One of Larry McMurtry's funniest and most touching contemporary novels.

The New York Times Texasville shows off at his popular storytelling best.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer Larry McMurtry is the most entertaining novelist in America.
San Francisco Chronicle A raucous farce and coming-of-age without growing up...
The Washington Post Texasville crackles with energy, humor, and passion.
New York Post As Texasville unfolds, sentences practically tumble over one another in a race for laughs....McMurtry is hot after a seriocomic study of a man trying to find mental balance in a Texas of which he observes, "Seems to me it's so glorious it's just about driven us all crazy."...There are plenty of eye-catching roadside sights to enjoy along the route.
The Wall Street Journal Mr. McMurtry's town, Thalia, is glutted with bed hoppers, maniacs, juvenile delinquents, stupid pets, suicidal bankers, and war mongering OPEC bashers
-- all brought to peaks of comic energy....Madness reigns and it is quite amusing.
Liz Smith New York Daily News Texasville is just as funny as can be. Such a kick to read that I predict its popularity may well outstrip Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winner, Lonesome Dove.
The Philadelphia Inquirer Texasville is simply great.
United Press International With Texasville, McMurtry has written an ideal sequel. The characters from The Last Picture Show have grown deeper, wiser, and more interesting, just as McMurtry's writing has done.
The Washington Post Texasville is a big ol' mess of a book: long, haphazardly plotted, exuberant, populous, good-spirited...the sexual activity is vigorous and varied and described with considerable relish...the novel's intelligence and its compassion are what really matter, and in this, Texasville is of a piece with all of McMurtry's best work.
Louise ErdrichThe New York Times Book ReviewUnrestrained humor...McMurtry doesn't ask us to feel sorry for his characters, but to laugh at their crude one-liners and to be appalled at, and yet admiring of, their raw, material decadence....The individual scenes are sharp, spare, full of longhorn humor and color....Texasville is filled with local idioms, tall stories, and unabashed one-liners.
Houston PostTexasville is just slightly off center and loony...but look beyond the gags and you'll find a penetrating work....McMurtry is the rare male writer who knows his women. With Texasville, he shows he knows his men, too.
The Boston GlobeHe is precise and lyrical, ironic and sad....There aren't many writers around who are as much fun to read as Larry McMurtry.
The Denver PostUproarious goings-on...when sliding from humor into pathos, McMurtry lets us down easy, with our laughter making bubbles as we sink....Though Thalia is a small north Texas town, Texasville is really about contemporary America....Texasville is funny and sad, ludicrous and penetrating, farcical and poignant. But it is above all entertaining.
Milwaukee Journal SentinelDark but hilarious humor...McMurtry's agile literary hand is evident in every quick-moving chapter.
TimeMcMurtry's...wonderfully loose-jointed narrative style slips in and out of comic exaggeration with practiced ease. There are no seams beneath the ambling yarn spinner (his literary heritage) and the slick ambiguities of the twentieth-century novelist.
CosmopolitanMcMurtry is such an engaging writer, you really don't mind being kept up way past your bedtime finding out everything about his characters....By the time you finish Texasville, you'll feel as though you've spent a pleasant few weeks in Texas and that you'd like to go back pretty soon.
United Press InternationalWith Texasville, McMurtry has written an ideal sequel. The characters from The Last Picture Show have grown deeper, wiser, and more interesting, just as McMurtry's writing has done.
The Washington PostTexasville is a big ol' mess of a book: long, haphazardly plotted, exuberant, populous, good-spirited...the sexual activity is vigorous and varied and described with considerable relish...the novel's intelligence and its compassion are what really matter, and in this, Texasville is of a piece with all of McMurtry's best work.
The Washington PostTexasville is a big ol' mess of a book: long, haphazardly plotted, exuberant, populous, good-spirited...the sexual activity is vigorous and varied and described with considerable relish...the novel's intelligence and its compassion are what really matter, and in this, Texasville is of a piece with all of McMurtry's best work.
Louise ErdrichThe New York Times Book ReviewUnrestrained humor...McMurtry doesn't ask us to feel sorry for his characters, but to laugh at their crude one-liners and to be appalled at, and yet admiring of, their raw, material decadence....The individual scenes are sharp, spare, full of longhorn humor and color....Texasville is filled with local idioms, tall stories, and unabashed one-liners.
Louise ErdrichThe New York Times Book ReviewUnrestrained humor...McMurtry doesn't ask us to feel sorry for his characters, but to laugh at their crude one-liners and to be appalled at, and yet admiring of, their raw, material decadence....The individual scenes are sharp, spare, full of longhorn humor and color....Texasville is filled with local idioms, tall stories, and unabashed one-liners.
Houston PostTexasville is just slightly off center and loony...but look beyond the gags and you'll find a penetrating work....McMurtry is the rare male writer who knows his women. With Texasville, he shows he knows his men, too.
Houston PostTexasville is just slightly off center and loony...but look beyond the gags and you'll find a penetrating work....McMurtry is the rare male writer who knows his women. With Texasville, he shows he knows his men, too.
The Boston GlobeHe is precise and lyrical, ironic and sad....There aren't many writers around who are as much fun to read as Larry McMurtry.
The Boston GlobeHe is precise and lyrical, ironic and sad....There aren't many writers around who are as much fun to read as Larry McMurtry.
The Denver PostUproarious goings-on...when sliding from humor into pathos, McMurtry lets us down easy, with our laughter making bubbles as we sink....Though Thalia is a small north Texas town, Texasville is really about contemporary America....Texasville is funny and sad, ludicrous and penetrating, farcical and poignant. But it is above all entertaining.
The Denver PostUproarious goings-on...when sliding from humor into pathos, McMurtry lets us down easy, with our laughter making bubbles as we sink....Though Thalia is a small north Texas town, Texasville is really about contemporary America....Texasville is funny and sad, ludicrous and penetrating, farcical and poignant. But it is above all entertaining.
Milwaukee Journal SentinelDark but hilarious humor...McMurtry's agile literary hand is evident in every quick-moving chapter.
Milwaukee Journal SentinelDark but hilarious humor...McMurtry's agile literary hand is evident in every quick-moving chapter.
TimeMcMurtry's...wonderfully loose-jointed narrative style slips in and out of comic exaggeration with practiced ease. There are no seams beneath the ambling yarn spinner (his literary heritage) and the slick ambiguities of the twentieth-century novelist.
TimeMcMurtry's...wonderfully loose-jointed narrative style slips in and out of comic exaggeration with practiced ease. There are no seams beneath the ambling yarn spinner (his literary heritage) and the slick ambiguities of the twentieth-century novelist.
CosmopolitanMcMurtry is such an engaging writer, you really don't mind being kept up way past your bedtime finding out everything about his characters....By the time you finish Texasville, you'll feel as though you've spent a pleasant few weeks in Texas and that you'd like to go back pretty soon.
CosmopolitanMcMurtry is such an engaging writer, you really don't mind being kept up way past your bedtime finding out everything about his characters....By the time you finish Texasville, you'll feel as though you've spent a pleasant few weeks in Texas and that you'd like to go back pretty soon.
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