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A carregar... The Last Picture Showpor Larry McMurtry
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. The lonely aches and confusing relationships of a desolate small town in nowhere, Texas, are painfully captured in this classic novel. "It was another one of those mornings when no one was there" - this stark sentence neatly summarises the atmosphere of a bleak, cold and forlorn town in which the well-drawn characters search restlessly for meaning or comfort, or give up hope. McMurtry's writing is direct, plain, and minimally regional in tone, which serves to accentuate the emptiness and heartache around every windswept corner of the plot. As a portrait of a dying community, and the remorseless inevitability of endings, this is fine work of art. I think this is the first McMurty book I've read and I'm glad I did. While The Last Picture Show is fairly short (just 220 pages), McMurty deftly manages to give significant depth to more than half a dozen characters. Oddly, I think the characters he spent the most time with seemed the shallowest (both in development and in personal character). The story is a coming of age tale, a decline of western civilization tale and more. McMurty's writing is topnotch. I'm open to reading more of his work. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Pertence a SérieThalia, Texas (1) Está contido emTem a adaptaçãoPrémios
An almost-true story about a small town in Texas that ought to exist if it doesn't, with characters like Sam the Lion, the delectable Jacy, and Ruth Popper, the coach's wife. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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Thalia Texas, the setting, is a lonely, dreary town, filled with lonely, disenchanted people. The only way the townspeople can fill the lonely void in their lives is through sex. That's it on a nutshell.
Some characters are cartoonish, for example, Jacy. She pursues men and sex to enhance her wild reputation. Why? Is sje bored? Is she in competition with her mother? The book could have been better if some of these (and other) character motivations were explored.
In this case, the movie was better than the book. ( )