Larry McMurtry
Paperback | Pages: 800 pages Rating: 3.82 | 1251 Users | 88 Reviews
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| Title | : | Moving On (Houston Series #1) |
| Author | : | Larry McMurtry |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 800 pages |
| Published | : | June 4th 1999 by Simon Schuster (first published 1970) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Westerns |
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With a riotously colorful cast of highbrows, cowpokes, and rodeo queens, in its wry humor, tenderness, and epic panorama, Moving On is a celebration of our land by Larry McMurtry, one of America’s best-loved authors.Moving On is a big, powerful novel about men and women in the American West. Set in the 1960s against the backdrop of the honky-tonk glamour of the rodeo and the desperation of suburban Houston, it is the story of the restless and lovable Patsy Carpenter, one of Larry McMurtry’s most unforgettable characters.
Patsy—young, beautiful, with a sharp tongue and an irresistible charm—and her shiftless husband, Jim, are adrift in the West. Patsy moves through affairs of the heart like small towns—there’s Pete, the rodeo clown, and Hank, the graduate student, and others—always in search of the life that seems ever receding around the next bend. Moving On is vintage McMurtry.
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| Original Title: | Moving On |
| ISBN: | 0684853884 (ISBN13: 9780684853888) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Houston |
| Series: | #1 |
| Setting: | Houston, Texas(United States) |
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Ratings: 3.82 From 1251 Users | 88 ReviewsWeigh Up Epithetical Books Moving On (Houston Series #1)
"She had always supposed she would lead an intense life, one way or another, but it just wasnt working out that way. She wasnt starving, but neither was she feasting. Her sensations werent very intense, her emotions werent very intense, even her imaginings had ceased to be very intense."Have you ever heard of this book Moving On? I hadnt, at least not until my dear Goodreads friend Julie wrote an incredibly compelling review over a year ago now. Moving On, in case you didnt know, was written byI have been a fan of McMurtry ever since reading Leaving Cheyenne and The Last Picture Show back in the early 1970s. And then, of course, I read Lonesome Dove, probably my all-time favorite novel. Moving On has been on my shelf for years and I know I started reading it back in the 70s or 80s but for some reason never finished. The copy I have now is one I picked up at a thrift store a couple of years ago -- not sure what happened to my original AVON paperback. Anyway, this was a long rather
I really expected better of McMurtry-- even with a preface warning that his readers felt that his heroine was a crybaby. Today, we might simply classify her as clinically depressed or perhaps bi-polar. The first 150 pages of this features her going from one crying jag to another-- cruelly picking fights with her husband-- and complaining about anything and everything.As this couple follows the rodeo circuit (her husband aspires to be a photographer) a number of interesting and colorful
I really expected better of McMurtry-- even with a preface warning that his readers felt that his heroine was a crybaby. Today, we might simply classify her as clinically depressed or perhaps bi-polar. The first 150 pages of this features her going from one crying jag to another-- cruelly picking fights with her husband-- and complaining about anything and everything.As this couple follows the rodeo circuit (her husband aspires to be a photographer) a number of interesting and colorful
Larry McMurtry is becoming one of my favorite writers. His characters are just very real, and I have an easy time relating to them and caring about them. When I started the book, I almost couldn't stand Patsy because she was so neurotic and would cry over everything. Something kept me hooked though, and she ended up being my favorite character. You could really feel her evolution and growth as a person. I didn't realize that this was part of the Terms of Endearment/Evening Star trilogy when I
The Amazon.com reviews for this book say that nothing happens in this book, but that is totally untrue. It's a long meandering portrait of a marriage falling apart. It's main character Patsy Carpenter is not particularly likeable, but I came to sympathize deeply with her. Many many many people have said that she cries too much, but I entirely disagree. I think it's a nuanced, incredibly well-observed rendering of a real woman, more so than almost any other male writer I've ever read. She is not
As if reluctant to stride too briskly through a hot, sweaty clime, "Moving On" gives us the slow reveal of a marriage breaking apart, crack by crack. At nearly 800 pages, this novel, set primarily in the Southwest, is, indeed, a Texas-sized book. But Larry McMurtry's chronicle of beautiful Patsy Carpenter and those in her orbit is so perceptive and real that it's more of a complete and worthwhile journey to relish than one you just want to be over.Jim and Patsy Carpenter spend the early part of
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