Terms of Endearment, Larry McMurtry
Terms of Endearment, Larry McMurtry
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Terms of Endearment

Author: Larry McMurtry

Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat

Unabridged: 15 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/04/2013

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award–winning motion picture, Larry McMurtry created two unforgettable characters who won the hearts of readers and moviegoers everywhere: Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma.

Aurora is the kind of woman who makes the whole world orbit around her, including a string of devoted suitors. Widowed and overprotective of her daughter, Aurora adapts at her own pace until life sends two enormous challenges her way: Emma’s hasty marriage and subsequent battle with cancer.
Terms of Endearment is the Oscar-winning story of a memorable mother and her feisty daughter and their struggle to find the courage and humor to live through life’s hazards—and to love each other as never before.

"special … very winning … it will make you laugh and cry."—New York Times

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 Mark on July 20, 2023

"They’re doing a biopsy," Emma told him. "That’s the modern way of casting bones". YIKES!!!......You’d like to think modern laboratory medicine has trundled along a bit more than that over the past 100 years. I won’t forget Term of Endearment by Larry McMurty in a hurry. I was a McMurty virgin, but I......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on February 03, 2020

I had never seen the movie & before doing so I picked up this book by the writer of Lonesome Dove. That work cannot be too easily compared to this estrogen-drenched Fem-Power! novel which paints its heroine Aurora Greenway as a sassy matriarch deeply afraid of becoming a grandmother & too selfaware......more

Goodreads review by Katie on May 03, 2021

Abandoned at pg 280. I was expecting this to be a cross between John Updike and Cormac Macarthy. Something challenging and richly resonant. Instead it's a fluffy romcom. How much you enjoy it will depend on how charming and funny you find Aurora and her collection of male suitors. I'm afraid I must b......more

Goodreads review by Pedro on April 12, 2022

Because I disliked the protagonist, Aurora Greenway, so much, the first three hundred and sixty pages felt like a real chore. Most of the time I felt like throwing my copy through the window just so I’d never have to “listen” to her bullshit again. I’ve got absolutely no complaints about the writing......more