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The Last Picture Show (The Last Picture Show #1)

Larry McMurtry

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 280 pages

Rating: 3.97 | 13397 Users | 726 Reviews

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Title	:	The Last Picture Show (The Last Picture Show #1)
Author	:	Larry McMurtry
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 280 pages
Published	:	2000 by Orion Books (first published 1966)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Young Adult. Coming Of Age. Westerns. Literature. Novels. Literary Fiction

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An American idyll infused with sex & adolescent (as well as much adult) longing. I adored every single page of this fast-moving, microsociety-under-a-lens type story which depicts the sexual and schoolboy escapades of two friends in a small Texas town. This is the last time things will be like this, therefore the adjective "Last" in the title. It is exquisite & very fun to get through. Anecdotal power at its height, Larry McMurtry should've won the Pulitzer Prize for this one, perhaps more so than for his behemoth "Lonesome Dove" (gasp!). This is what's great about America, not a Rockwell portrait, not a ride down the Mississippi with Huck. This is on the cusp of modernity, at the stirrings of current globalization: The Story of the Death of The Small American Town.

Details Books Conducive To The Last Picture Show (The Last Picture Show #1)

Original Title:	The Last Picture Show
ISBN:	0752837214 (ISBN13: 9780752837215)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Last Picture Show #1, Thalia, Texas #3
Setting:	Texas(United States)

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Ratings: 3.97 From 13397 Users | 726 Reviews

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A sleepy, dusty old town filled with warm and wonderful characters. Frustrations of small town living are in every day and still the people move forward. Of the three main characters, Duane, Jacy & Sonny, I like Sonny the best. But the lives of all of these characters is poignant and warm as they find their way through their last year of high school and into the world. I look forward to continuing their stories in Texasville one day soon.

Well, this ain't no Lonesome Dove. Yes, it's penned by the same author, and it's set in Texas, but that's basically where the similarities begin and end. The grand, expansive romanticism in LD is nowhere to be found here. Neither is the hope for a better life, or struggle against punishing weather systems. The only element that the characters here are fighting against is loneliness.It's so bleak, it's so dead, the life in this small Texan town. It's so empty. It's so limited. Monotonous. Rinse

I love this book -- it has so much sadness, but there's nothing weak or self-pitying about any of the characters. They just carry on, even without a purpose in their lives. Larry McMurtry is a genius at taking stuff that would be unspeakably horrible if it weren't so funny, and then making it really funny. One obvious issue no one else has mentioned is the irony that this book was written long before the LONESOME DOVE novels, yet it deals with the Texas that rangers Call and McRae sacrificed so

I first read "The Last Picture Show" when I was around the same age as the three main characters, Sonny, Duane, and Jacy, and the novel had a powerful effect on me. McMurtry's descriptions were crisp and uncluttered, capturing perfectly the lonely, lost feeling of finishing high school. There's a sense of loss associated with leaving school and finding work, becoming distanced from one's friends, and this sense of solitude in "The Last Picture Show" is exaggerated by the setting: the small town

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 people as they get older and drift apart. While I never read it before, it fit like a favorite t-shirt.Larry McMurty paints a vivid picture of small town life as Sonny and the rest graduate high school

A sleepy, dusty old town filled with warm and wonderful characters. Frustrations of small town living are in every day and still the people move forward. Of the three main characters, Duane, Jacy & Sonny, I like Sonny the best. But the lives of all of these characters is poignant and warm as they find their way through their last year of high school and into the world. I look forward to continuing their stories in Texasville one day soon.

McMurtry has an incredible talent of turning a (let's say) genre story into a touching, moving and intelligent character study. First (for me) was a Western and now a coming of age story. It quickly becomes a tale of loneliness, friendship, love and appearances in a small town but not only. Wonderful storytelling.