All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers

Name: All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Larry McMurtry
ISBN: 9781436182850

Author: Larry McMurtry

Narrator: John Randolph Jones

Unabridged: 8 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/22/2009

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

An icon of American letters, Larry McMurtry counts a Pulitzer Prize and a screenwriting Academy Award among his numerous accomplishments. Here, Danny Deck-Emma's friend from Terms of Endearment-is a promising young writer losing touch with his talent and drifting from Texas to California because "that's where all the writers are." Set in the early 1960s, this is an uproarious (and raunchy) satire of life in Texas and California and a true American portrait of an artist as a young man.

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 Bryce

Old Shit I've Been Revisiting Part II: The Sequel. Believe it or not but my tolerance for books about young men who are so desperately swamped by ennui, alienation and genius that they have no choice but to love up all the lovely ladies is extrodinarily low. No really I kid you not. Yet for some reas......more

Goodreads review by Dax

When I heard of McMurtry's passing, I of course needed to revisit his work. McMurtry is the author who introduced me to my love of reading, so it felt appropriate. It's difficult to explain why I appreciate his work so much. There's nothing fancy about his prose, but it feels honest. It's really abo......more