Texasville by Larry McMurtry (1987) Hardcover

Texasville
by Larry McMurtry
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Copyright:  1987
Book Club Edition

The award to Larry McMurtry of the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling novel, Lonesome Dove, confirms his reputation as a major American novelist who chronicles in a unique voice the home truths of the heart and the heartland and whose ability to create characters, men and women, we recognize, believe in and care about is unique among contemporary American writers.

In Texasville, his eagerly awaited major new novel, McMurtry again takes as his subject Texas and Texans -- but this time it is the Texas of the mid-1980s, "in the trough of the oil glut," where instant millionaires are in the process of becoming dazed instant debtors.

Texasville is the brilliant and uexpected sequel to The Last Picture Show, McMurtry's classic novel about growing up in a decaying Texas town, But the Thalia of the fifties gas gone from being a parched backwater to a boom town, only to sink into the backwaters again with the collapse of oil prices -- ironically, just in time to celebrate the somewhat doubtful hundredth anniversary of its founding. The return, under mysterious circumstances, of Jacy, the high school beauty of The Last Picture Show (whom moviegoers will remember as Cybill Shepherd), from a career as a Hollywood star and social celebrity, is the catalyst that changes the lives of her fellow Thalians -- and shakes the town of Thalia itself to its very roots.

Texasville is Larry McMurtry's richest novel to date, as moving as Terms of Endearment and as much about "the real Texas" as was Lonesome Dove -- a Texas which, in the full flush of its sesquicentennial, is at once completely different and recognizably the same . . . ..

Condition: Used. Good condition. Hardcover. Dust cover. Dust cover edges show edge wear. There's a rough spot on the front dust cover where a sale sticker was removed and a piece of the backing stayed on the cover. Dust cover flaps and pages are discolored and tanning from age. Previous owner's name and date are written on the front endpaper. There's a sleeve pasted to the front endpaper with an index card. It's how the previous owner kept track of her books. THIS IS A THREE POUND BOOK.

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