Name: Rhino Ranch (Thalia Trilogy)
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Author: Larry McMurtry
ISBN: 9781439156407

Type

Physical Book

Author

Larry McMurtry

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.4 x 14.1 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN

9781439156407

ISBN13

9781439156407

Synopsis "Rhino Ranch (Thalia Trilogy) "

In his signature his elegiac prose, Rhino Ranch finds Larry McMurtry bidding a final farewell to his multi-book hero, Duane Moore, and the rapidly changing town of Thalia, Texas. The town of Thalia, Texas has changed forever. By the end of When the Light Goes, Duane was already realizing how different his dusty old oil patch was becoming. Now, coming back from a near-fatal heart attack, it is nearly unrecognizable to him. Returning home to recover, Duane finds a new neighbor, K.K. Slater, a stubborn, tough, quirky billionairess, who also happens to have opened the Rhino Ranch--a preserve to save the black Rhino--on her property. In the midst of a world to which he no longer belongs, in a town in which the land that used to reap oil now serves as a nature preserve, he watches the world change around him and begins to reflect on love affairs past and the missed opportunities he now regrets. Rhino Ranch is a bittersweet and fitting end to this iconic series, a tribute to all of the emotion, hilarity, whimsy, and poignancy that readers have followed across decades.

Larry McMurtry

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Larry McMurtry was born on June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas. Novelist, essayist, and screenwriter for film and television, McMurtry sets most of his works in the West. He grew up on a ranch on the outskirts of Archer City, Texas and studied at North Texas State University and Rice University. His first novel, Hud the Wild (1961) immediately sparked the interest of critics and won the Jesse M. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters (1962) and the Guggenheim Fellowship (1964). In 1985, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Lonesome Dove. Author of twenty-five novels, two essay collections, an autobiographical text, and more than thirty screenplays, McMurtry is best known for the masterful film adaptations of some of his novels: in 1963 Hud starring Paul Newman and in 1971 The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich's masterpiece. In 2006, McMurtry was awarded the Golden Globe and the Oscar for the screenplay of Brokeback Mountain. He currently lives in Archer City, Texas.

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