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| Author | Larry McMurtry |
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| Language | English |
| Set in | Thalia, Texas |
Publication date | 1987 |
| Publication place | USA |
| Preceded by | The Last Picture Show |
| Followed by | Duane's Depressed |
Texasville is an American novel by Larry McMurtry, first published by Simon & Schuster in 1987. It is a sequel to his earlier The Last Picture Show (1966) and features several of the same characters a number of years later. [1] The novel was adapted into the movie Texasville that was released in 1990.
McMurtry wrote described the novel as focusing on "the famous oil boom of the 70s, which described the excesses of human folly as I witnessed them in Archer City and the homes of my siblings as the irresistible notion of riches came to race through and desiccate the town, all despite that the history of booms is well known. " [2] He added, "I thought the whole bust to boom and back to bust was hilarious and so described it in Texasville. I don’t think it’s much of a novel." [3] However, McMurtry said "The book did fairly well, mainly because it came close on the heels of Lonesome Dove ." [4]
There were three more sequels: Duane's Depressed , When the Light Goes and Rhino Ranch: A Novel . McMurtry later wrote, " I never thought of Duane as me. Except for a handful of passages — the chapters in Duane’s Depressed that describe his depression — the books aren’t autobiographical. He doesn’t know what I know, despite having been forced by his analyst to read Proust." [5]