Duane's Depressed (Last Picture Show Trilogy)

by Larry Mc Murtry (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $3.45

  Set in Thalia, Texas, the small town that McMurtry literally put on the map when he wrote The Last Picture Show, Duane's Depressed follows those of the characters who have survived into their twilight years. McMurtry brings the Thalia saga to an end with Duane confronting depression in the midst of plenty -- surrounded by his children who all seem to be going through life crises involving sex, drugs, and violence; living with his wife, Karla, who is wrestling with her own demons; and with friends like Sonny, who seem to be dying. This is McMurtry's strongest and most appealing contemporary novel since the much acclaimed Terms of Endearment -- the work of a powerful, masterful artist, with a deep understanding of the human condition, a profound ability to write sympathetically about small-town life, and perhaps the surest touch of any American novelist for the tangled feelings that bind and separate men and women.

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $9.50

  Set in the small Texas town of Thalia, this final volume of the trilogy that began with The Last Picture Show and continued with Texasville is a poignant comedy of late love and one man's struggle to understand why he should survive.

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $19.76

  Funny, sad, full of wonderful characters and the word-perfect dialogue of which he is the master, McMurtry brings the Thalia saga to an end with Duane confronting depression in the midst of plenty. Surrounded by his children, who all seem to be going through life crises involving sex, drugs, and violence; his wife, Karla, who is wrestling with her own demons; and friends like Sonny, who seem to be dying, Duane can't seem to make sense of his life anymore. He gradually makes his way through a protracted end-of-life crisis of which he is finally cured by reading Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, a combination of penance and prescription from Dr. Carmichael that somehow works. Duane's Depressed is the work of a powerful, mature artist, with a deep understanding of the human condition, a profound ability to write about small-town life, and perhaps the surest touch of any American novelist for the tangled feelings that bind and separate men and women.