Name: When the Light Goes (en Inglés)
SKU: 1861201
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Author: Larry McMurtry
ISBN: 9781416534273

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Larry McMurtry

Editorial

Simon and Schuster

Año

2008

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

195

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.3x13.4x1.2 cm

Peso

0.18 kg.

ISBN

141653427X

ISBN13

9781416534273

Categorías

Ficción: general y literaria
Novelas sobre la vida familiar
Tema narrativo: sentimiento del terruño

When the Light Goes (en Inglés)

Larry McMurtry (Autor) · Simon and Schuster · Tapa Blanda

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In this masterful and often surprising sequel to the acclaimed Duane's Depressed, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove has written a haunting, elegiac, and occasionally erotic novel about one of his most beloved characters. Back from a two-week trip to Egypt, Duane finds he cannot readjust to life in Thalia, the small, dusty West Texas hometown in which he has spent all of his life. In the short time he was away, it seems that everything has changed alarmingly. His office barely has a reason to exist now that his son Dickie is running the company from Wichita Falls, his lifelong friends seem to have suddenly grown old, his familiar hangout--once a good old-fashioned convenience store--has been transformed into an "Asian Wonder Deli," his daughters seem to have taken leave of their senses and moved on to new and strange lives, and his own health is at serious risk. It's as if Duane cannot find any solace or familiarity in Thalia and cannot even bring himself to revisit the house he shared for decades with his late wife, Karla, and their children and grandchildren. He spends his days aimlessly riding his bicycle (already a sign of serious eccentricity in West Texas) and living in his cabin outside town. The more he tries to get back to the rhythm of his old life, the more he realizes that he should have left Thalia long ago--indeed everybody he cared for seems to have moved on without him, to new lives or to death. The only consolation is meeting the young, attractive geologist, Annie Cameron, whom Dickie has hired to work out of the Thalia office. Annie is brazenly seductive, yet oddly cold, young enough to be Duane's daughter, or worse, and Duane hasn't a clue how to handle her. He's also in love with his psychiatrist, Honor Carmichael, who after years of rebuffing him, has decided to undertake what she feels is Duane's very necessary sex reeducation, opening him up to some major, life-changing surprises. When the Light Goes reminds everyone that where there's life, there is indeed hope. At once realistic and life-loving, often hilariously funny, and always moving, Larry McMurtry has written one of his finest and most compelling novels to date, doing for Duane what he did so triumphantly for Aurora in Terms of Endearment.

Larry McMurtry

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Larry McMurtry nace el 3 de junio de 1936 en Wichita Falls, Texas. Novelista, ensayista y guionista de cine y televisión, McMurtry sitúa la mayoría de sus obras en el Oeste. Creció en un rancho en las afueras de Archer City, Texas y estudió en la North Texas State University y en la Universidad de Rice. Su primera novela, Hud el salvaje (1961) suscita inmediatamente el interés de los críticos y gana el premio Jesse M. Jones del Instituto de Texas de Letras (1962) y la Beca Guggenheim (1964). En 1985 gana el premio Pulitzer por su novela Lonesome Dove. Autor de veinticinco novelas, dos colecciones de ensayos, un texto autobiográfico y más de treinta guiones, McMurtry es más conocido por las magistrales adaptaciones cinematográficas de algunas de sus novelas: en 1963 Hud protagonizada por Paul Newman y en 1971 The Last Picture Show, la obra maestra de Peter Bogdanovich. En 2006, McMurtry es galardonado con el Globo de Oro y el premio Oscar por el guión de Brokeback Mountain. Actualmente vive en Archer City, Texas

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