[The Last Picture Show 01] • The Last Picture Show

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of *Lonesome* *Dove* comes a powerful coming-of-age novel set in the American West. In Thalia, Texas, Larry McMurtry epitomizes small-town America and through characters reintroduced in *Texasville* and *Duane’s Depressed*, captures the ecstasy and heartbreak of adolescence.

*The Last Picture Show* is one of Larry McMurtry's most memorable novels, and the basis for the enormously popular movie of the same name. Set in a small, dusty, Texas town, *The Last Picture Show* introduced the characters of Jacy, Duane, and Sonny: teenagers stumbling toward adulthood, discovering the beguiling mysteries of sex and the even more baffling mysteries of love. Populated by a wonderful cast of eccentrics and animated by McMurtry's wry and raucous humor, *The Last Picture Show* is a wild, heartbreaking, and poignant novel that resonates with the magical passion of youth.