Terms of Endearment (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Larry McMurtry
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Midwest, West, U.S., Cancer, Adultery, Servants, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Texas, Nebraska
- Locales: Texas, Nebraska, Iowa, Des Moines, IA, Houston, TX, Kearney, NE, Omaha, NE
Terms of Endearment finished the Houston trilogy on which Larry McMurtry had been working for a decade, although he later returned to finish the story of Aurora Greenway in The Evening Star. McMurtry had intended Terms of Endearment to be Emma Horton's book, but her mother, Aurora Greenway, took over. Once she had been invented as a character, it was difficult to keep Aurora under wraps. She is forty-nine years old and three years widowed; she is good-looking, plump, and self-centered. As the story opens in Houston in 1967, Aurora is ticking off her standard list...
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