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| Original Title: | The Last Picture Show |
| ISBN: | 0752837214 (ISBN13: 9780752837215) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Last Picture Show #1, Thalia, Texas #3 |
| Setting: | Texas(United States) |
Larry McMurtry
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 280 pages Rating: 3.97 | 13397 Users | 726 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Last Picture Show (The Last Picture Show #1) |
| Author | : | Larry McMurtry |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 280 pages |
| Published | : | 2000 by Orion Books (first published 1966) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Young Adult. Coming Of Age. Westerns. Literature. Novels. Literary Fiction |
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An American idyll infused with sex & adolescent (as well as much adult) longing. I adored every single page of this fast-moving, microsociety-under-a-lens type story which depicts the sexual and schoolboy escapades of two friends in a small Texas town. This is the last time things will be like this, therefore the adjective "Last" in the title. It is exquisite & very fun to get through. Anecdotal power at its height, Larry McMurtry should've won the Pulitzer Prize for this one, perhaps more so than for his behemoth "Lonesome Dove" (gasp!). This is what's great about America, not a Rockwell portrait, not a ride down the Mississippi with Huck. This is on the cusp of modernity, at the stirrings of current globalization: The Story of the Death of The Small American Town.Rating Regarding Books The Last Picture Show (The Last Picture Show #1)
Ratings: 3.97 From 13397 Users | 726 ReviewsArticle Regarding Books The Last Picture Show (The Last Picture Show #1)
Best read of the year so far. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what I call a real page turner. I couldnt turn them quickly enough and although this was a very down to earth story (always my favourite kind) I was literally over the moon with it. Bleak and dark (oh, so bleak!!!) with a sprinkling of brilliant and intelligent humour, this was a totally unforgettable story full of equally unforgettable characters. As much as I loved Lonesome Dove and was truly impressed with McMurtrys powerfulAfter Lonesome Dove, I wanted to see what McMurtry's writing was like when he wasn't invoking the Great West. The novel dedicated to the small Texas town where he grew up,The Last Picture Show, is a rather bleak look at life in the 50s. Sonny is in high school with his best friend Duane and still a virgin. In fact, the entire book is about the discovery of sex of most of the primary characters. I was a bit taken back by the casual mention of sex with farm animals that was engaged by both Sonny
The melancholy at the heart of this novel is heartbreaking. And if you know the movie, you have a really good idea of the characters, setting and storyline of McMurtry's novel. Like the movie, the novel itself is in black and white. A handful of likable characters are surrounded by small-town ignorance and trapped by circumstance or their own limited understanding of the world. Meanwhile, much of the story takes place in the bitter cold, colorless months of north Texas winter.A year passes, from
Most novels want to grow up to be this novel.
Sonny, Duane, and Jacy come of age in a dusty Texas town. What will happen to them once they graduate high school?I snagged this for the princely sum of $1.99 on the Kindle. It was worth every penny.As I said in the teaser, The Last Picture Show is a coming of age tale, a tale of what happens to people as they get older and drift apart. While I never read it before, it fit like a favorite t-shirt.Larry McMurty paints a vivid picture of small town life as Sonny and the rest graduate high school
I cannot understand how this book has received such high ratings. It was only the second book I have ever been unable to finish due to pure distaste for it. It's described as a "coming of age" story, but all I picked up on was that "this is a fucked up town full of fucked up people". For instance: Duane and Jacy. The star couple of the high school. Jacy's family is rich, Duane is poor. Jacy's parents don't like Duane, blah blah blah. Typical storyline for a rich girl and a poor boy. Jacy is
I love this book -- it has so much sadness, but there's nothing weak or self-pitying about any of the characters. They just carry on, even without a purpose in their lives. Larry McMurtry is a genius at taking stuff that would be unspeakably horrible if it weren't so funny, and then making it really funny. One obvious issue no one else has mentioned is the irony that this book was written long before the LONESOME DOVE novels, yet it deals with the Texas that rangers Call and McRae sacrificed so
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