The Last Picture Show

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Synopsis
Sam the Lion runs the pool-hall, the picture house and the all-night cafe. Coach Popper whips his boys with towels and once took a shot at one when he disturbed his hunting. Billy wouldn't know better than to sweep his broom all the way to the town limits if no one stopped him. And teenage friends Sonny and Duane have nothing better to do than drift towards the adult world, with its temptations of sex and confusions of love. The basis for a classic film, The Last Picture Show is both extremely funny and deeply profound. And, with the eccentrically peopled Thalia, Texas, Larry McMurtry made a small town that feels as real as any you've ever walked around.
Copyright:
1966

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781451606584
Related ISBNs:
9780141194448, 9780671754877, 9780684853864, 9780684008172, 9780754022381, 9780891908890, 9780140051834, 9780752837215, 9780671753818
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Larry Mcmurtry
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Teens, Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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This is a fantastic book--one of my all time favorites. I would not show this to anybody under 18, much as I liked it. Check your ideals at the door, gentle reader. First, there is much adult content here--sex and language. The worst is a bunch of Texas high school boys so unattractive to girls that they'll have sex with animals--YIKES! Surprisingly for a book about Texas, there is almost no violence. The book takes some describing. Here is a Texas town in the idealized 1950s: a rich girl leading her boy friend to Perdition; an inoffensive teen wanting his first sexual frolic--and learning all he needs to know that school doesn't teach; a neglected wife so desperate for any kind of love she'll turn anywhere to get it; a drunken football coach kissing one of his male players and getting by with it; a wimpy English teacher fired for being a homosexual with no evidence,and having his wife and kids desert him for it; a tormented preacher's son thrown in jail for rape--again with no evidence; and just for spice, a mentally retarded boy abused by one and all, with the word DOOM written across his forehead in letters of fire. What an idyllic paradise of a decade, the '50s in Texas USA. When I read this, in my twenties, it was a jolting revelation about the 1950s to a kid who was born in 1963. I have never been able to own this book until now. NLS has never released it in digital format, and more's the pity.