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Moving On: A Novel by: Larry McMurtry  List Price: $16.00 Your Price: $10.88 You Save: $5.12 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780684853888 ISBN: 0684853884 Label: Simon & Schuster Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 800 Publication Date: June 04, 1999 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Studio: Simon & Schuster Sales Rank: 519869 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Moving On is a big, powerful novel about men and women in the American West. Set in the 1960s against the backdrop of the honky-tonk glamour of the rodeo and the desperation of suburban Houston, it is the story of the restless and lovable Patsy Carpenter, one of Larry McMurtry's most unforgettable characters. Patsy -- young, beautiful, with a sharp tongue and an irresistible charm -- and her shiftless husband, Jim, are adrift in the West. Patsy moves through affairs of the heart like small towns -- there's Pete, the rodeo clown, and Hank, the graduate student, and others -- always in search of the life that seems ever receding around the next bend. Peopled with a riotously colorful cast of highbrows, cowpokes, and rodeo queens, in its wry humor, tenderness, and epic panorama, Moving On is a celebration of our land by one of America's best-loved authors. Moving On is vintage McMurtry. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Worth the long read! Yes this book is very long, and yes it is worth the read. McMurtry is a wonderful author, he has a way of putting the reader into another life, the descriptions, and characters are so vivid that you forget that you are reading a book. The characters are very memorable, its been almost 6 months since my reading, but still today all of the characters are still etched in my mind. After finishing the book I felt, and still feel that they are my friends. The dialog is first ... Read More Rating: - Moving On!This is the best Larry McMurtry book. Don't be fooled by imitations! (So many of his new books pale in the shadow of his earlier works.) Try this wonderful novel. You'll be haunted by it long after you have finished it. Rating: - In the mood. . .This is an early McMurtry novel, a long, rambling story with young Patsy Carpenter at the center of a large cast of characters that includes graduate students, ranchers, rodeo cowboys, a Hollywood writer, Haight-Ashbury hippies, and wealthy Texans - both new and old money. Written in the late 1960s, and published in 1970, "Moving On" is interesting for its attempt to capture the subtly shifting moods of its central characters instead of focusing on action and storyline. As page follows page, McMurtry ... Read More Rating: - A Grand AchievementI am in the process of rereading Moving On and just checked Amazon for other readers' comments, which I found intriguing. I originally bought this book for two reasons: 1.)I'm a Larry McMurtry fan and 2.) I was interested in the rodeo aspects of the book. I was initially disappointed when Jim and Patsy left the rodeo circuit for the "desperation of suburban Houston," but I finished the book anyway. When I picked it up again recently, I intended only to reread the rodeo-related passages, and now (deep ... Read More Rating: - Moving OnThis is my favorite book of all time! I would recommend it to anyone--McMurtry is also my second favorite author (1st being Pat Conroy). Browse for similar items by category:
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