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Author:
McMurtry, Larry.
Title:
All my friends are going to be strangers : a novel / Larry McMurtry.
Publisher:
Liveright Publishing Corporationa division of W. W. Norton & Company,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
277 pages ; 21 cm
Subject:
Novelists--Fiction.
Notes:
"First published as a Liveright paperback 2018" -- ECIP galley.
Summary:
"Hailed as one of "the best novels ever set in America's fourth largest city" (Douglas Brinkley, New York Times Book Review), All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers is a powerful demonstration of Larry McMurtry's "comic genius, his ability to render a sense of landscape, and interior intellection tension" (Jim Harrison, New York Times Book Review). Desperate to break from the "mundane happiness" of Houston, budding writer Danny Deck hops in his car, "El Chevy," bound for the West Coast on a road trip filled with broken hearts and bleak realities of the artistic life. A cast of unforgettable characters joins the naive troubadour's pilgrimage to California and back to Texas, including a cruel, long-legged beauty; an appealing screenwriter; a randy college professor; and a genuine if painfully "normal" friend. Since the novel's publication in 1972, Danny Deck has "been far more successful at getting loved by readers than he ever was at getting loved by the women in his life" (McMurtry), a testament to the author's incomparable talent for capturing the essential tragicomedy of the human experience." --
Series:
Houston series ; 2.
ISBN:
1631493574
9781631493577
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1038302580
LCCN:
2018007320
Locations:
REPC017 -- Greenfield Public Library (Greenfield)
LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

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