Last picture show
Author
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"McMurtry is an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold." — New York Times Book Review
The Last Picture Show (1966) is both a rambunctious coming-of-age story and an elegy to a forlorn Texas town trying to keep its one movie house alive. Adapted into the Oscar-winning film, this masterpiece immortalizes the lives of the hardscrabble residents who are threatened by the inexorable forces of the modern world....Author
Series
Last picture show volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003, c1999
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Last picture show volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Thalia, Texas, to recover from a heart attack, Duane Moore is charmed by K.K. Slater, a billionairess who intends to open a nature reserve for the endangered black rhinoceros, but Homer Carmichael complicates Duane's romantic intentions.