2007, ISBN: 9781416534266

Random House Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Random House Publishing Group, 2.5, Book is in very good condition,… Plus…

Random House Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Random House Publishing Group, 2.5, Book is in very good condition, with no tears or wrinkles. There is a slight marking on the outside of the pages, but other than that book is in great condition.In this masterful and often surprising sequel to the acclaimed Duane's Depressed , the Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author of Lonesome Dove has written a haunting, elegiac, and occasionally erotic novel about one of his most beloved characters. Duane Moore first made his appearance in The Last Picture Show and, like his author, he has aged but not lost his vigor or his taste for life. Back from a two-week trip to Egypt, Duane finds he cannot readjust to life in Thalia, the small, dusty, West Texas hometown in which he has spent all of his life. In the short time he was away, it seems that everything has changed alarmingly. His office barely has a reason to exist now that his son Dickie is running the company from Wichita Falls, his lifelong friends seem to have suddenly grown old, his familiar hangout, once a good old-fashioned convenience store, has been transformed into an "Asian Wonder Deli," his daughters seem to have taken leave of their senses and moved on to new and strange lives, and his own health is at serious risk. It's as if Duane cannot find any solace or familiarity in Thalia and cannot even bring himself to revisit the house he shared for decades with his late wife, Karla, and their children and grandchildren. He spends his days aimlessly riding his bicycle (already a sign of serious eccentricity in West Texas) and living in his cabin outside town. The more he tries to get back to the rhythm of his old life, the more he realizes that he should have left Thalia long ago -- indeed everybody he cared for seems to have moved on without him, to new lives or to death. The only consolation is meeting the young, attractive geologist, Annie Cameron, whom Dickie has hired to work out of the Thalia office. Annie is brazenly seductive, yet oddly cold, young enough to be Duane's daughter, or worse, and Duane hasn't a clue how to handle her. He's also in love with his psychiatrist, Honor Carmichael, who after years of rebuffing him, has decided to undertake what she feels is Duane's very necessary sex reeducation, opening him up to some major, life-changing surprises. For the lesson of When the Light Goes is that where there's life, there is indeed hope -- Duane, widowed, displaced from whatever is left of his own life, suddenly rootless in the middle of his own hometown, and at risk of death from a heart that also doesn't seem to be doing its job, is in the end saved by sex, by love, and by his own compassionate and intense interest in other people and the surprises they reveal. At once realistic and life-loving, often hilariously funny, and always moving, though without a touch of sentimentality, Larry McMurtry has opened up a new chapter in Duane's life and, in doing so, written one of his finest and most compelling novels to date, doing for Duane what he did so triumphantly for Aurora in Terms of Endearment ., Simon & Schuster, 2007, 3<

2007, ISBN: 9781416534266

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Simon & Schuster, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: 1, 208 Seiten, Publiziert: 2007-03-06T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.39 kg, Verkaufsrang: 4521121, Gegenwartsliteratur, Literatur & Fiktio… Plus…

Simon & Schuster, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: 1, 208 Seiten, Publiziert: 2007-03-06T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.39 kg, Verkaufsrang: 4521121, Gegenwartsliteratur, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, Bücher, Unterhaltungsliteratur, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Featured Categories, Rough Cut Asins, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_5701, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_0, Arborist Merchandising Root, Englische Bücher, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_2301, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4901, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_0, Special Features Stores, Format: Rauer Buchschnitt, Simon & Schuster, 2007<

ISBN: 9781416534266

Simon & Schuster. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex l… Plus…

Simon & Schuster. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Simon & Schuster, 2.5<