McMurtry, Larry (Vol. 3) - McMurtry, Larry 1936–
McMurtry, Larry 1936–
McMurtry is an American novelist whose Horsemen Pass By was made into the movie "Hud." He is also author of The Last Picture Show. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
Unlike the panting ladies-magazine prose of Moving On (particularly the sex scenes), the language here [in All My Friends are Going to be Strangers] is crisp, lean and forceful. The best of it is visually suggestive, without the flat, prosy lapses of The Last Picture Show. McMurtry's unerring eye for pictorial detail captures brief, gem-like flashes of contemporary life. Perhaps that is why the moving automobile plays such an important part in his work; dramatic possibilities always lurk in his passing landscapes.
There are flaws in the novel: although thoroughly engaging, Danny is too strung out from the beginning to offer much resistance to circumstance; his end is foretold in his beginning....
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