Larry McMurtry - ParadiseRelease Date: June 01, 2002 |
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Larry McMurtry - Paradise - The author recounts his 1999 odyssey to Tahiti and the South Seas Islands, a journey he took in response to his dying mother's revelations about her marriage, relationship with his father, and life against the harsh, violent landscape of west Texas.
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| Key Information | |
| Authors | Larry McMurtry |
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| Nonfiction Category | Biography & Autobiography • Family & Relationshi |
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| Professional Reviews | New York Review of Books: "PARADISE captures the peripatetic, often interrupted quality of a traveler's thoughts: old worries...are subsumed in new distractions....About pigs and tourists, McMurtry is amusing. But as he ponders the similarity between his parents' emotional isolation and the isolation of Gauguin's native bride....PARADISE takes on a predominantly darker tone....In PARADISE..., the journey [is] so pleasant and involving that we barely notice where we are until that last page, that last paragraph, which leads us right up to death." |
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| Book Editions | PaperbackReprint159June 01, 2002Touchstone Books7.75"(h) x 5"(w) x 0.25"(d), 0.4 lbs.9780743215664 |
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| Publisher's Note | I am in Punaauia, Tahiti, in a thatched bungalow with a twenty-foot ceiling. |
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