Duane Moore Rides Again

The hero of Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show returns to sex and Texas. This time, he's followed by a rhinoceros.

November 1st, 2009 · No Comments

When we last saw Duane Moore in Larry McMurtry’s 2007 novel When the Light Goes, he was a sixty-something malcontent who had just found age-old happiness with a much younger woman. When we first saw him back in 1966, in McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show, he was a sexually confused…

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Duane Drain

Larry McMurtry is no John Updike (as if you didn't know).

November 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Reading Rhino Ranch, the latest installment in Larry McMurtry’s on-going Duane Moore saga that began in 1966 with The Last Picture Show, was a bit of deja-vu all over again. The last three books of the series are of a sort. The town of Thalia is still dying. Sexual frustration continues…

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