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All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers : A Novel
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Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Ranging from Texas to California on a young writer's journey in a car he calls El Chevy, All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers is one of Larry McMurtry's most vital and entertaining novels.
Danny Deck is on the verge of success as an author when he flees Houston and hurtles unexpectedly into the hearts of three women: a girlfriend who makes him happy but who won't stay, a neighbor as generous as she is lusty, and his pal Emma Horton. It's a wild ride toward literary fame and an uncharted country...beyond everyone he deeply loves. All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers is a wonderful display of Larry McMurtry's unique gift: his ability to re-create the subtle textures of feelings, the claims of passing time and familiar place, and the rich interlocking swirl of people's lives.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780684853826
ISBN: 0684853825
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2002-10-02
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date: 2002-09-24
Studio: Simon & Schuster
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
A moving story with hidden depth and meaning -
This fine book, written in first person, chronicles a few months in the life of a young writer, including his joys, success, and ultimately his decline. The main character is at first a charming individual, with an innocence and confusion often found in intelligent free thinkers, and eager to make a difference in the world through his writing and his friends. Yet as the book progress, we find his innocence eroding as his confusion deepens. Unable to handle the success of his career coupled with the lack of success in his personal life, Danny Deck goes on a journey, searching for meaning through his former friends. In the end, he recognizes that he cannot return to his former life and finds himself in a psychological vacuum with no answer other than to blame his own success for his problems.
Amidst the process and the search, we find many funny characters such as Uncle Laredo known as Uncle L, his wife Martha, a cantankerous lady who loves goats, and old man Lorenzo. Danny takes all these people in stride without much emotional response and continues his journey which ultimately is his own mental and social decline. While the book has an eerie sadness that seems to accompany each page, we still find ourselves rooting for Danny to get himself together and write another book.
McMurtry's style of using events and characters to define the essence of the story and outline its purpose makes for a smooth and powerful approach to writing. In this case, the sorrow of Danny's life blends with poor judgment to create a memorable character with no future. A rather depressing book, with few redeeming human qualities demonstrated, All My Friends reminds us of the bleak emotions that often bubble beneath the surface of our human facade. While some of McMurtry's later books are a little cavalier in their presentation, this one is a gripping read difficult to put down. Short in plot development, but long in human experience, this book combines the naturalism of Dreiser with the confusion of Salinger, resulting in a captivating but often sad story. Definitely worth reading by all McMurtry fans.
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Portrait Of A Writer As A Young Man -
As is usually the case when I get excited about an author's work I tend to delve into all the work in order to see which way he or she is heading. That is the case here with Larry McMurtry. I have just finished reading his The Last Picture Show trilogy (The Last Picture Show; Texasville; and, Duane's Depressed) about coming of age in small town Texas, having one's mid-life crisis there and, in the end, struggling against the strains of mortality there, as well. The cumulative effect of this work was a five-star review. Here we step back to early McMurtry and while the promise is certainly there as well as his quirky look at modern life this is the work of a rising author star not of a master writer.
Why? Well, for one thing the subject matter. All fictional writing in the final analysis may be autobiographical, consciously or unconsciously, but here the trials and tribulations of a young Texas writer who heads to California to find himself after the first budding of prominence with the publication of his first book and a movie offer is, well, just a little too precious. Moreover, the inevitable romantic problems of twenty-something males (and, by now in 2008, females) has been done to death. Nothing really jumps out here other than some cogent observations about the foibles of human nature as strained through the California blender. My advice to Danny, the protagonist writer here is -Go east, young man, go east back to Texas. That's where your pot of gold is, Larry, oops Danny. Do you need to read this book? If you have time. Do you need to read The Last Picture Show trilogy. Damn right. That's the different in a nutshell.
Early McMurtry at his best. -
This is one of Larry McMurtry's best modern novels (as opposed to his superlative historical fictions). Young writer Danny Deck takes off on a Southwestern odyssey that leads him to the best ending McMurtry has ever written. A good, solid American novel. It's a little dated, but then so is America. Even if you're not necessarily a McMurtry fan, you'll probably like this one.
The downhill slide of a young writer's life -
Is writing dangerous to one's health and well being? That's one of the themes explored in this novel. Danny Deck, a graduate student in a writing program in Texas, meets Sally Bynum at a party and impulsively marries her a week later. Sally only wants to be a mother, and she does become pregnant. After Deck's first book is accepted for publication, their marriage falls apart, and Danny's life is set spiraling down a long tunnel of despair involving many quick affairs, visitation problems with his child, and even a failed book-signing party when no one shows up. He does meet someone (Jill) who excites him intellectually, but is a very unstable character emotionally and they split up. The book ends with him walking out into the Rio Grande River, high on booze and drugs, as if he might commit suicide while he thinks about the lost chance with Jill. (He obviously doesn't because he reappears in a sequel, but at the time McMurtry didn't know what to do with him.)
Danny's writing does not seem as if it's going to help him deal with his problems much, and might even contribute to them, but McMurtry would not want Danny (or anyone) to stop writing because of that. It's frustrating at times reading about Deck and his aimless wanderings because he's the kind of guy who tends to make the same mistakes over and over. Although not as fine as some his other books (a few of which are absolutely great), this book is still pretty good.
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Excellent -
I read this book when I was 23 and found it profounding, educational & entertaining. It made a huge impact on my life at the time. Every young man looking for a direction in life should read about Danny Deck. A great read and the best book I ever read.
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