Moving on (Paperback)
| Author: Larry McMurtry |
| Format: | Paperback |
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| "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. Peopled 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 one of America''s best-loved authors. "Moving On" is vintage McMurtry. |
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From the Publisher:
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. Peopled 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 one of America's best-loved authors. Moving On is vintage McMurtry. |
McMurtry leaves the Old West behind in this examination of a marriage that is about to end. Although there are numerous rodeo scenes here, McMurtry's focus is on Jim and Patsy Carpenter; Jim is a graduate student at Rice University, and Patsy is his wife. Through their encounters with other couples, their relationship is severely tested and strained.
Praise
"My strongest memory of 'Moving On'--aside from how much I liked Patsy and her dowdy friend Emma Horton--involved the struggle to title it....Finally, my editor's then-wife suggested calling it 'Moving On.' I was too numb either to love it or hate it, and in my numbness I conceded, foolishly, I now believe...Patsy Carpenter...was the character everyone noticed, whether they liked her or not. I thought then and think now that her name would have done fine as a title." - Larry McMurtry Book Jacket
"A marvelous book, funny, tough, filled with sensual good nature and nerviness." - Herbert Gold New York Times
"McMurtry has a good ear: [his people] talk the way people actually talk in Houston, at rodeos, in Hollywood. Mr. McMurtry also has a marvelous eye for locale: the Southwest is superbly evoked. It is a pleasure...to escape claustrophobic novels that rely on the excitation of the verbal glands instead of the exploration of social reality." - John Leonard (unknown)
"Though time sequences often fall out of order in the three novels ['Moving On,' 'All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers,' 'Terms of Endearment'], key events and characters are repeated often enough to maintain a continuous theme which, not surprisingly, has three parts: sex and its frustrations, academics and its frustrations, and something like culture and its frustrations which McMurtry has branded 'Ecch-Texas.'" - R. C. Reynolds
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