“She had never been inclined to pass over accessible hearts, if the person carrying them seemed somewhat palatable.”Īurora Greenway, nearing her fiftieth year, is irrefutably one of the most memorable characters you will ever come across in literature. I very well may be the only person left on the planet that hasn’t yet seen the film adaptation either, so I went into this without any preconceived notions based on that (although I do know who played the main roles, but they never popped in my head while reading.) One thing, however, that I will say if you don’t already know the gist of the story: Do Not read the blurb on Goodreads or on the back of the book!
It has every single thing that I search for in a perfect reading experience: engaging dialogue, sharp characterizations, humor, passion, and realistic life situations. If I didn’t have hundreds (okay, thousands) of books on my to-read list, I could easily have started this one right over again just minutes after finishing it.
Men, some of them decent and good, seemed to march through her life almost daily, and yet they caused so little to stir within her that she had begun to be afraid – not just that nothing would ever stir again, but that she would stop wanting it to, cease caring whether it did or not, or even come to prefer that it didn’t.” This is only the second Larry McMurtry I have read – and I am now a firm fan.“She had made every effort to remain active, to keep open to life, and yet life was beginning to resist her in unexpected ways. The relationships explored in this novel are of those between a mother and her daughter, between wives and husbands, friend’s, employees and lovers – with all these people mixing together – in what feels like one huge complex family. The characters are huge and memorable, and wonderfully eccentric. I loved every page of this wonderful novel.
In 1986 he won the Pulitzer Prize for LONESOME DOVE. McMurtry earned a masters degree from Rice University in 1960 and quickly rose to international fame as a premier American writer. His father and eight uncles were all ranchers. THE AUTHOR Larry McMurtry was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1936. Then, with the devastating discovery that Emma has cancer, Aurora slowly learns to adapt and compromise. As Emma grows up, the relationship between mother and daughter is full of tension and disagreement – not least over Emma’s choice of husband, who Aurora disapproves of. Widowed, Aurora has an infant daughter, Emma, of whom she is at first overprotective. Aurora Greenway is the kind of woman who makes the world turn around her – including her string of devoted suitors.
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