Rhino Ranch - (Thalia Trilogy) by Larry McMurtry (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this novel of love and regret, McMurtry bids a final farewell to his beloved character, Duane Moore, and the rapidly changing town of Thalia, Texas.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>In his signature </b><b>his elegiac prose, </b> <b><i>Rhino Ranch</i> finds Larry McMurtry bidding a final farewell to his multi-book hero, Duane Moore, and the rapidly changing town of Thalia, Texas.</b> <p/>The town of Thalia, Texas has changed forever. By the end of <i>When the Light Goes</i>, Duane was already realizing how different his dusty old oil patch was becoming. Now, coming back from a near-fatal heart attack, it is nearly unrecognizable to him. Returning home to recover, Duane finds a new neighbor, K.K. Slater, a stubborn, tough, quirky billionairess, who also happens to have opened the Rhino Ranch--a preserve to save the black Rhino--on her property. <p/>In the midst of a world to which he no longer belongs, in a town in which the land that used to reap oil now serves as a nature preserve, he watches the world change around him and begins to reflect on love affairs past and the missed opportunities he now regrets. <i>Rhino Ranch</i> is a bittersweet and fitting end to this iconic series, a tribute to all of the emotion, hilarity, whimsy, and poignancy that readers have followed across decades.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[Duane] and his friends in the fictional Texas town of Thalia made me laugh and nearly made me cry, and they made me think about life..."--<i>Fort Worth Star-Telegram</i><br><br>"A droll and poignant dramedy, <i>Rhino Ranch</i> is a near-perfect coda to the minor masterwork of Texas's greatest novelist."<br> --<i>Texas Monthly</i><br><br>"Nobody depicts the complexities of smalltown Texas life and the frailties of human relationships better than McMurtry."--<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Larry McMurtry (1936-2021) was the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>Lonesome Dove</i>, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lived in Archer City, Texas.
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