The Evening Star

by Larry McMurtry

Book Overview

The earthy humor and the powerful emotional impact that set McMurtry's Terms of Endearment apart from other novels now rise to brilliant new heights with The Evening Star. McMurtry takes us deep into... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671685198
• ISBN13: 9780671685195
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.6" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Out of his many, one of his best.

No writer in the last half of the 20th century was better at character development than McMurtry. In "Terms" he introduced us to Aurora Greenway; here he he expands and burnishes her character while he folds in a supporting cast of almost equally fascinating lesser characters. This was one of those rare tomes I wished would never end. You don't have to like her, but if you finish this book unaffected by la Greenway, you'd best read it again. Aurora's successful plan to ensure her young Grandson would never forget her is one of the most moving sequences I have ever read. Two years after first reading this novel and I still well up just thinking about it.

not perfect, but very good

In typical McMurtry style, there is a good deal of humor and whimsy in this novel. For the first 400 pages or so I felt it was a bit overdone, but once I saw where the novel was headed, it made perfect sense. About the ultimate destination of the novel: it packs quite an emotional punch. Rare indeed is the novel that can make me cry, but this one did it.

As good as the first one!!

McMurtry's characters become so real to me that I can barely stand to let them go at the end of his books. I am so glad that I got to see what happened to the people from Terms of Endearment.

a must-read for a who fell in love with Terms of Endearment

Larry McMurty gives us another masterpiece of humor and tears in the continued saga of Aurora Greenway