![]() ![]() As Cunningham says to Sugar near the close of the novel. This is only the second Larry McMurtry I have read – and I am now a firm fan. What results, then, is a story of crime and reward in which the killer gets both the girl and the money. The relationships explored in this novel are of those between a mother and her daughter, between wives and husbands, friend’s, employees and lovers – with all these people mixing together – in what feels like one huge complex family. The characters are huge and memorable, and wonderfully eccentric. I loved every page of this wonderful novel. In 1986 he won the Pulitzer Prize for LONESOME DOVE. Brooks Terms of Endearment, based on the Larry McMurtry novel, is a simply sensational movie that sweeps over 25 years from uproarious laughter to tears. McMurtry earned a masters degree from Rice University in 1960 and quickly rose to international fame as a premier American writer. His father and eight uncles were all ranchers. Terms of Endearment (Houston 3) by Larry McMurtry 4. THE AUTHOR Larry McMurtry was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1936. Then, with the devastating discovery that Emma has cancer, Aurora slowly learns to adapt and compromise. As Emma grows up, the relationship between mother and daughter is full of tension and disagreement – not least over Emma’s choice of husband, who Aurora disapproves of. Widowed, Aurora has an infant daughter, Emma, of whom she is at first overprotective. Aurora Greenway is the kind of woman who makes the world turn around her – including her string of devoted suitors. ![]()
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