![]() ![]() McMurtry's send-off shows that his creator is quite unable to as well. But one of Duane's prevailing traits is that he has never been able to take himself entirely seriously. Readers new to this strain of McMurtry's works may find the quick shifts of scene and wry, off-hand dialogue a strange departure. While McMurtry is best known for epic, weighty works like Terms of Endearment and Lonesome Dove, he has always interspersed his oeuvre with this type of wandering, fluffily comic narrative. McMurtry depicts them passing through Duane's life much like the lunchtime crowd at Texasville's Dairy Queen, subjecting him to, alternately, seduction, admiration, dismissal and abject scorn, revealing in brief sketches how Duane's station may change but his odd centrality to Thalia does not. Slater, the wealthy heiress Honor Moore, Duane's former paramour and shrink, now a lesbian Casey Kincaid, a porn star Willy, Duane's Rhodes-scholar grandson an imported African San Bushman called Sam of the San Boyd Cotton, a grizzly old rancher and, of course, the mysterious Double Aught. The Thalia of the present is also inhabited by McMurtry's patented brand of wacky misfits: K.K. Strangely enough, some of the chapters are split, or so it seemed to me, without any rhyme or reason. ![]() Larry McMurtry began the story of Duane Moore in 1966 with the novel The Last Picture Show. Rhino Ranch by Larry McMurtry is is easy to read, with lots and lots of white space, some of the chapters are half a page and none longer then two pages. ![]()
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