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by Larry McMurtry

Author:	Larry McMurtry
Subcategory:	Contemporary
Language:	English
Publisher:	Orion mass market paperback; New Ed edition (1900)
Pages:	464 pages
Category:	Fiction and Literature
Rating:	4.3
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The Late Child is both funny and forlorn trademark Larry McMurtry production, a hilarious and poignant cross-country odyssey that’s rich in characters, laughs, and truths about life.

The Late Child is both funny and forlorn. Harmony is a wonderful companion. Susan Kelly, USA Today. trademark Larry McMurtry production, a hilarious and poignant cross-country odyssey that’s rich in characters, laughs, and truths about life. Jean Westmoore, Buffalo News. The Late Child has some sweet fablelike moments. The story is never less than engaging, and sometimes dates to be more ambitious than that. Amanda Heller, The Boston Globe.

Part of The Desert Rose series by Larry McMurtry. That such a thing as death could happen to a child she had given birth to, and arranged birthday parties for, and picked up after dance class, was too terrible. Harmony felt such a feeling of tearing and ripping inside herself that she began to squeeze the little sharp pieces of glass into her hand. She needed to feel something different from the ripping-even a cut.

Larry McMurtry, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other awards, is the author of twenty-four novels, two collections of essays, two memoirs, more than thirty screenplays, & an anthology of modern Western fiction. He lives in Archer City, Texas. Библиографические данные. The Late Child: A Novel Desert Rose series (Том 2).

On the ride to the Statue of Liberty boat, Harmony sat alone. Even Eddie abandoned her. She’s too sad about my sister, Eddie said. Let’s just let her ride in the back seat until she feels better. He himself spent the trip happily chatting with Laurie and Sheba, and admiring Iggy’s new red leash and black collar. Laurie bought them just for Iggy, he said. Pat sat on the front seat and flirted, as best she could, with . but G. kept turning around and flashing his beautiful white teeth at Neddie

An unforgettable addition to his widely acclaimed body of work, The Late Child is Larry McMurtry's tender, funny, and poignant sequel to The Desert Rose.

An unforgettable addition to his widely acclaimed body of work, The. An unforgettable addition to his widely acclaimed body of work, The Late Child is Larry McMurtry's tender, funny, and poignant sequel to The Desert Rose. Harmony is the optimistic, resilient Las An unforgettable addition to his widely acclaimed body of work, The Late Child is Larry McMurtry's tender, funny, and poignant sequel to The Desert Rose.

Larry Jeff McMurtry (born June 3, 1936) is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the Old West or in contemporary Texas. His novels include Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), which were adapted into films earning 26 Oscar nominations (10 wins).

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Larry McMurtry remains a genius at dialogue. Larry McMurtry is a true story-teller and the creator of memorable characters. Maria gives her life to protect her other children from Joey, then hangs on till she can ask Lorena to take her little ones. The scene where the seven whores start reminiscing about the first men in their lives in wonderful. Larry McMurtry is a wonderful storyteller, and with. A story is about life and its meanings, it's significance or value. As Gus said in Lonesome Dove, is about LIVIN'. She must have recognized in Lorena another like herself.

I had no books as a child, until I was 7. Then I just read boys’ books - the Poppy Ott series, for example. I grew up in a bookless place. If you had to name one book that made you who you are today, what would it be? There’s no one book that would define me; I’d have to name nearly every book that I’ve read over the past 70 years. Reading has sustained me and has been the one constant throughout my life

Comments:

Dainris

I did not find this book enjoyable to read, even though I do like other Larry McMurty novel's. It was very dark and intense reading and I really never saw the point he was trying to make. Reading is a pleasure for me and this book gave me none of that

Iesha

The desert rose and the late child are nothing but pornography and glorifying white trash. What a waste of his talents.

Ziena

Lonesome Dove. Dead Man's Walk. Comanche Moon. Streets of Laredo. I've read them all. Loved them all. They were the kind of books that you can't wait to get back to. You want to see what happens, but not too quickly; you don't want the books to end. Good characters. Good plots. Good writing. I loved those works so much, I picked up Mr. McMurtry's The Late Child at a little bookstore based only on the author. My mistake.

Meandering plot. Shallow characters. I hate to leave a book unfinished, but the truth is, I couldn't finish this one. I tried, but it was just a chore to pick it up and read it, and that's really not what reading is all about (unless you're in school). :)

I felt like I was reading a completely different author. How could I enjoy his Lonesome Dove series so much and feel so apathetic about this book? While I loved Gus and Call and Lori in Lonesome Dove, I just didn't care for Harmony, Eddie, Pat or Neddie. I really disliked the dialogue--it just seemed so stilted. I didn't believe a 5-year-old talked like Eddie. Harmony was just too strung out; it was hard to feel any sympathy.

I just have to shake my head regarding this novel. I was so disappointed. On the bright side, it only cost me a buck for the book.

Iaran

McMurtry's sequel to "The Desert Rose", which introduced the romantic, optimistic Harmony, ex Las Vegas showgirl, and her arid, glittering environment, deals with the death of the child she agonized over in "Desert Rose."
In the first book Harmony coped with her difficult daughter, Pepper, and truggled to come to terms with aging. Now Harmony copes with the sudden news that Pepper, who she hasn't seen since Pepper left for New York at 17, six years before, is dead.
In her late 40s, Harmony has settled into a routine. She has a job in a recycling plant and an adored 5-year-old son named Eddie. Her current boyfriend, the latest in a long line of losers, runs off rather than deal with her grief. "She was not the same cheerful woman he had left only eight hours before."
Grief overwhelms Harmony, but Eddie keeps her tethered. "Eddie was the one person left that she absolutely had to think about."
Meeting her Oklahoma sisters at the airport, Harmony finally finishes the letter from Pepper's roomate. They were lovers as well as roomates, it seems, and Pepper died of AIDS.
A few days later Harmony sets off on a cross-country Odyssey with her sisters and Eddie. Harmony is looking for a new life and hungers for family solidarity back in Oklahoma. But even as their trip begins the two older sisters bicker constantly and the details of their lives begin to emerge in patterns of ragged desperation.
Harmony, bouts of disconnection alternating with her responsibility and love for Eddie, decides to go to New York and meet Laurie, the roomate. She must learn about Pepper's life and try and understand her death.
Eddie, a precocious and delightful child, with just enough brattiness to make him human, collects a family along the way - an abandoned dog, a teenage New Jersey prostitute and her sorry husband, three Indian entrepreneurs and Laurie.
While Laurie and Harmony try to join the pieces of the Pepper they knew, Eddie and his dog become celebrities and are invited to the White House. As Washington is on the way to Oklahoma, they get a school bus and the whole enthusiastic clan goes along. But slowly they begin to drop off - they cannot escape their lives by joining Harmony and Eddie's.
And in Oklahoma Harmony realizes that she did the right thing years ago - when she left her dead-end hometown and her negative, impossible-to-please mother.
McMurtry's portrayal of the grief of a mother for her child is clear-eyed and unsentimental. The zany characters and incidents along the way are humorous, jarring, irritating - visiting on the reader the same displacement life is visiting on Harmony.
While the zany happenings and heart-of-gold eccentrics sometime seem too Disneyish, only one aspect of Harmony's grief doesn't ring true. Although Pepper's death was sudden, for AIDS, only eight weeks, Harmony never asks why she wasn't told earlier, when she might still have seen her daughter alive. She doesn't agonize or even reflect over this, although she lingers over regrets about not visiting her daughter when it seemed they had all the time in the world.

Joni_Dep

While the premise of the story, the death of an older child, is certainly sad and the typical McMurtry style of exploiting people's character flaws could lead to a book of emotional anguish and despair, somehow The Late Child, instead, is light, humorous, and oddly uplifting in its overall presentation. A precocious 5 year old boy continually interjects a positive spin and an indomitable optimism that is contagious to the characters in the story as well as the reader. Like many of McMurtry's stories, The Late Child provides a look at a slice of life through the journey of a family and friends. Using hilarious situations, comical personalities, and human complexity, McMurtry demonstrates the poor judgment of people and the consequences of those decisions. But unlike some of his darker books, The Late Child leaves the reader with a sense of hope and improvement.

I was entranced with the beginning, the development, and the travels through New York City. But I was disappointed with the arrival of the people in Oklahoma and the events of the ending. I felt that the focus moved away from the boy and to the problems of the adults. This caused the story to fizzle and to emphasize the minor characters too much and took away some of the power of journey.

Still, aside from the problems of the ending, a very enjoyable read that ranks among his finer books in my estimation.

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