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- ↑ Review of book at Publishers Weekly
- ↑ Review of book at Los Angeles Times
- ↑ Review of book at Kirkus
- ↑ "McMurtry's Hollywood does have heart". Sun Herald. 2 August 1987. p. F3.
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