The Last Picture Show

Name: The Last Picture Show
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3 (3 reviews)
Author: Larry McMurtry
ISBN: 9781490656519

Author: Larry McMurtry

Narrator: John Randolph Jones

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/26/2014

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Coming Of Age

Synopsis

The Last Picture Show is both a rambunctious coming-of-age story and an elegy to a forlorn Texas town trying to keep its one movie house alive. Adapted into the Oscar-winning film, this masterpiece immortalizes the lives of the hardscrabble residents who are threatened by the inexorable forces of the modern world.

“McMurtry is an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold.”—New York Times Book Review

About Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. His other works include two collections of essays, three memoirs, and more than thirty screenplays, including the coauthorship of Brokeback Mountain, for which he received an Academy Award. He lives in Archer City, Texas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Candi

Twenty years ago, if you had asked if I’d like to wallow around in a pool of desperation and loneliness, I would have said it’s kind of you to ask, but no thank you! These days, I take to it like a pig to mud, I guess. If you’ve read this exceptional novel already, then you’ll know why I can’t help......more

Goodreads review by Fabian

An American idyll infused with sex and adolescent (as well as much adult) longing. I adored every single page of this fast-moving, microsociety-under-a-lens type story which depicts the sexual and schoolboy escapades of two friends in a small Texas town. This is the last time things will be like thi......more