The Last Picture Show
Welcome to the dusty little Texas town of Thalia. A sixteen, Sonny Crawford is naive -- until he meets a desperately lonely woman of forty. His best friend, Duane, is a bully -- but hopelessly in love with the prettiest, richest girl around. In the early 1950's, Sonny and Duanae act out a...
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Welcome to the dusty little Texas town of Thalia. A sixteen, Sonny Crawford is naive -- until he meets a desperately lonely woman of forty. His best friend, Duane, is a bully -- but hopelessly in love with the prettiest, richest girl around. In the early 1950's, Sonny and Duanae act out a poignant drama of adolescence -- the restless boredom, the bouts of beer-drinking, the secret trips to Mexico in search of prostitutes, the erotic fantasies so powerful that, finally, they have to explode.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140051834 (014005183X)
Publish date: June 28th 1979
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 220
Edition language: English
Series: The Last Picture Show (#1)
After reading Lonesome Dove I fell in love with Larry McMurtry’s writing. I enjoyed that book immensely (guess no word can describe what i feel for LD). Although, i was sure of not reading any of the sequels or prequels of that book since i had already read the spoilers and it was not uplifting at a...
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 peo...
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