| Loop Group Contributor(s): McMurtry, Larry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743250958 ISBN-13: 9780743250955 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2005 Annotation: Multiple award-winning author Larry McMurtry takes his act on the road in this irresistible tale of friendship, sisterhood, love, loss, sex, and Hollywood. This is the story of Maggie and Connie, two women rapidly approaching their sunset years but fiercely determined to have one last grand adventure before it's too late. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.34" W x 8" (0.46 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Friendship - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Southern California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Loop Group is Larry McMurtry at his contemporary best, a novel that can best be described as Thelma and Louise meets Terms of Endearment, in which two aging ladies set out on a road trip that will take them from Hollywood to Texas, with many adventures on the way. In perhaps his finest contemporary novel since Terms of Endearment, Larry McMurtry, with his miraculously sure touch at creating instantly recognizable women characters and his equally miraculous sharp eye for the absurdities of everyday life in the modern West, writes about two women, old friends, who set off on an adventure--with unpredictable and sometimes hilarious results. As Loop Group opens, we meet Maggie, whose three grown-up daughters have arrived at her Hollywood home to try and make her see sense about her busy life, a life that intersects with lots of interesting--all right, bizarre--people. Her daughters push her into having a few second thoughts about it, and these are reinforced when her best friend, Connie, seeks an escape from her own world of complex and difficult relationships with men. Maggie conceives the idea of driving to visit her Aunt Cooney's ranch near Electric City, Texas, and the two women prepare for the trip by buying a .38 Special revolver (which leads to unexpected trouble along the way). This road trip will end by changing their lives. Alternately hilariously funny and profoundly sad--even tragic--Loop Group is a major Larry McMurtry novel and a joy to read. |
Contributor Bio(s): McMurtry, Larry: - Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lives in Archer City, Texas. |