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ISBN: 0671633201

ISBN13: 9780671633202

Moving On

(Part of the Houston (#1) Series and Moving On (#1) Series)

By Alex Wolf

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"Moving On" is a big, powerful novel about men and women in the American West. Set in the 1960s against the backdrop of the honky-tonk glamour of the rodeo and the desperation of suburban Houston, it is the story of the restless and lovable Patsy Carpenter, one of Larry McMurtry's most unforgettable characters. Patsy -- young, beautiful, with a sharp tongue and an irresistible charm -- and her shiftless husband, Jim, are adrift in the West. Patsy moves through affairs of the heart like small towns -- there's Pete, the rodeo clown, and Hank, the graduate student, and others -- always in search of the life that seems ever receding around the next bend. Peopled with a riotously colorful cast of highbrows, cowpokes, and rodeo queens, in its wry humor, tenderness, and epic panorama, "Moving On" is a celebration of our land by one of America's best-loved authors. "Moving On" is vintage McMurtry.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0671633201

ISBN13:9780671633202

Release Date:January 1987

Publisher:Simon & Schuster

Length:794 Pages

Weight:1.70 lbs.

Dimensions:2.0" x 5.6" x 8.4"

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Rated 5 stars
The first of McMurtry's Houston books ...

By Thriftbooks.com User, January 24, 1999

To correct and amplify on some of the earlier reviews -- As Wagner's 'Ring' is a prologue followed by a trilogy, Larry McMurtry's Houston books are a trilogy followed by a epilogue -- in chronological order, 'Moving On', 'All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers', 'Terms of Endearment', and 'The Evening Star'. After McMurtry attended Texas Tech University, he went to graduate school in English at Rice University in Houston,...

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Rated 5 stars
Excellent book - read the trilogy

By Thriftbooks.com User, April 10, 1998

The first book (I think) in the trilogy that includes "Terms of Endearment" and "All my friends are going to be strangers". "Moving On" is excellent. McMurtry's description of small everyday tasks and oddball characters are beautiful. I read somewhere that McMurtry's women friends hated the book when it came out (one of whom supplied the title - McMurtry wanted to call it 'Patsy Carpenter') because the main character cries...

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Rated 5 stars
Why isn't this book a movie ?

By Thriftbooks.com User, August 19, 1997

This big book is replete with McMurtry's usual supporting cast of strong and strange characters (the best is Sonny, the ex-Rodeo Champion of the World and a truly loose man). The main character, Patsy, who is a study in female contradictions and a pleasure to behold on paper, prances fitfully through the '60s and marriage, lust, motherhood, and a Haight-Ashbury family intervention. Joining her are best friend Emma Horton (prequel...

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Rated 5 stars
McMurtry's Best and most Neglected Novel

By Thriftbooks.com User, July 5, 1997

Moving On was one of Larry McMurtry's first, and in my opinion, his best book. Its main character, Patsy, is an excellent portrait of an evolving personality. The incidental characters, both at the rodeo and back in Austin, are all well drawn. McMurtry also excells in capturing the culture, personality and humidity of the southwest. Despite my love of some of his other books (Horseman, Pass By and The Last Picture Show),...

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