All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Larry McMurtry
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Marriage, Betrayal, Friendship, San Francisco, Ranches, ranchers, or ranching, Texas, Students or student life, Urban life
- Locales: Texas
McMurtry has said that Danny Deck, his protagonist in his fourth novel, All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers, is close to him in his sensibilities. In McMurtry's words: “It is true that the better you write the worse you live. The more of yourself you take out of real relationships and project into fantasy relationship the more the real relationships suffer.”
In his fourth novel, McMurtry turns from the ranch country around Thalia and begins what has been called the Houston or urban trilogy. Danny Deck, a young student at Rice University, is from the ranching...
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