Check out the new look and enjoy easier access to your favorite features. This book is the second book in the "Last Picture Show" trilogy. This is just a well-written hilariosly fun 500 pg quirky story of a small Texas town and i adored it. None of the continuing characters seemed at all like the very interesting people in The Last Picture Show, the first-class novel to which this is a "sequel.". The stresses of the time seem concentrated in Duane, a one-time oil millionaire on the verge of bankruptcy who has four untamable children, a disaffected wife and a diminishing grip on his sanity. [Larry McMurtry] -- Jacy, the high school beauty, returns to Thalia from a career as a Hollywood star and changes the lives of her fellow townspeople. It’s a truck that basically drives no where....just from one edge of town to the other. "They'll just pray for their horrible little souls.". It should have been medically impossible -- and besides that, she and Duane only rarely made love. They could even be rented from Sonny Crawford's small convenience store, in Thalia. He had started poor, become rich, and now was losing money so rapidly that he had come to doubt that much of anything was true, in any sense. Set in the post-oil-boom 1980s, Texasville brings us up to date with Duane, who's got an adoring dog, a sassy wife, a twelve-million-dollar debt, and a hot tub by the pool; Jacy, who's finished playing "Jungla" in Italian movies and who's returned to Thalia; and Sonny -- Duane's teenage rival for Jacy's affections -- who owns the car wash, the Kwik-Sackstore, and the video arcade. temporär gesenkter USt. 2 Personen fanden diese Informationen hilfreich, Rezension aus Deutschland vom 25. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. An entertaining read. Larry McMurtry Booklist Larry McMurtry Message Board. Now waiting for the third book. At times confusing - there's just so many characters! Arrived in good time,packaging good,page ends have a rough untrimmed finish,but for the price (€0.01) I should'nt complain.All in all,very pleased. Duane had been in the hot tub nearly half an hour and was beginning to feel a little bleached. It would have housed several Great Danes comfortably, but so far had housed nothing. So far they had only watched two of them: Coal Miner's Daughter, which Karla and Nellie watched once or twice a week, and a sex movie called Hot Channels. He lives in Archer City, Texas. In this arresting, funny-sad sequel to The Last Picture Show, McMurtry's small Texas town of Thalia has gone from boom to bust practically overnight, a victim of the mid-'80s oil glut. It is always worth while in the end. The writing is fine, but the characters are not interesting or eliciting of any care. There's a problem loading this menu right now. It's nothing deep or thought provoking just the myriad of situations and people who get themselves involved with: sexual indiscretion, drugs, infidelity and all aspects of small town life where everyone goes. This book is the second book in the "Last Picture Show" trilogy. Shortly after that Karla had a T-shirt printed which read, INSANITY IS THE BEST REVENGE. He never seemed to ta. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Larry McMurtry. After that I read the book which was also pretty good. This story picks up 30 years after the events in "'The Last Picture Show" the wild ... Read full review. They bit and clawed one another like little beasts. Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2020. Jacy comes back to Thalia from Italy, where she was a minor movie actress. I'm glad we sent the twins off to camp. Copyright © 1987 by Larry McMurtry April 2018, Rezension aus dem Vereinigten Königreich vom 3. McMurtry, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Lonesome Dove, is a writer with a distinctive voice, a profound understanding of Texans and a brilliant gift for capturing the vagrant moods of the heart. When she wore it, all that happened was that men tried to sell her overpriced quarter horses. Refresh and try again. "I wanta hire a wetback to help me with this garden. TEXASVILLE picks up the lives of the main characters (and a sometimes bewildering array of minor characters) from McMurtry's THE LAST PICTURE SHOW 30 years down the line. Karla, Duane's beautiful, long-legged wife, came out of the house, a mug of coffee in her hand, and started walking across the long yard to the deck. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Gets a little hideous after a few hundred pages, but a good read if you liked the Last Picture Show. McMurtry seems to have dialed this one in, almost as if he was fulfilling the terms of a contract for a certain number of words, thumbing his nose at his publisher (I have no knowledge of this, pure speculation). What McMurtry's characters take most seriously and worry most about inevitably turns out comically. Since I read this series completely out of order, I had many questins as to how Duane had ended up with Karla and why his relationship with Sonny had more or less fizzled out. This book is just not credible. Eine Person fand diese Informationen hilfreich, Rezension aus dem Vereinigten Königreich vom 30. It is a continuing character study in the lives of a group of hedonists in Thalia, Texas. I would recommend!! Texasville : a novel. Rezension aus Deutschland vom 27. "We couldn't eat that many tomatoes if we ate twenty-four hours a day.". Can't wait to read book 3! Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Too many characters without enough differentiation, such that after 542 pages I still wasn’t sure (nor did I care) who Billie Ray and Bobby Sue even were. ", Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2020. Many human actions were incomprehensible to him, but that didn't mean he couldn't watch. "Texasville" is the sequel to "The Last Picture Show" and the book Larry McMurtry wrote following "Lonesome Dove." I just gulped this one down as it was the perfect antidote to a a lot of crap going on in my life. "I was thinking of shooting my dick off," he said. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 1, 2014, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2014. a long rambling read in short punchy chapters. November 1987), Rezension aus Deutschland vom 19. September 2014. a long rambling read in short punchy chapters. Jacy comes back to Thalia from Italy, where she was a minor movie actress. Shorty, a Queensland blue heeler, blinked every time the gun roared. I gave this book a whole 268 pages. "They'll commit incest or something. Duane was more skeptical. I enjoyed following the perils of Duane's life. If I'm on the bus on my daily commute and I miss my stop because I'm engrossed in what I'm reading, it's a good book. Does this book contain inappropriate content? Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2019. I just finished Texasville this week and have mixed feelings about it. Too many characters without enough differentiation, such that after 542 pages I still wasn’t sure (nor did I care) who Billie Ray and Bobby Sue even were.

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