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Last picture show volume 1
Description
The youth of a small town in mid-twentieth-century Texas search for ways to escape boredom and experience life and love.
Series
Criterion collection volume 549
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Story of teenagers in a small Texas town just prior to the hero leaving for Korea and the closing of the town's movie theater.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels-- Horseman, Pass By (1961), * Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966)-- all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, McMurtry writes tragically of men and women trying to carve out an existence on the plains,...
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Series
Last picture show volume 3
Description
A comedy on a man's belated mid-life crisis at the age of 62. It strikes Texas oil tycoon Duane Moore and not even his wife of 40 years can figure out what caused it. That task is left to a pretty psychiatrist. By the author of The Last Picture Show.
6) Rhino Ranch
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Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
In this poignant and striking final chapter in the Duane Moore story, which began in 1966, McMurty takes readers on one last unforgettable journey to Thalia, Texas, a town that continues to change at a breakneck pace even as Duane feels himself slowing down. Returning home to recover from a near-fatal heart attack, Duane discovers that he has a new neighbor: the statuesque K. K. Slater, a quirky billionairess who's come to Thalia to open the Rhino...
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