Houston

An icon of American letters, Larry McMurtry counts a Pulitzer Prize and a screenwriting Academy Award among his numerous accomplishments. Here, Danny Deck-Emma's friend from Terms of Endearment-is a promising young writer losing touch with his talent and drifting from Texas to California because "that's where all the writers are." Set in the early 1960s, this is an uproarious (and raunchy) satire of life in Texas and California and a true American portrait of an artist as a young man.

A widow with a small army of suitors, Aurora Greenway loves the limelight. She's got three grandchildren whom she adores (in small doses) and her son-in-law Flap, whom she's not really crazy about. And there's her daughter Emma. In some ways, Emma is all there ever was. Now, there's little time left to say the things that need to be said.

Larry McMurtry delivers the sequel to his enormously popular novel Terms of Endearment, also an Academy Award-winning motion picture. Aurora Greenway is now dealing with the trials and tribulations of her grandchildren, who she raised after the death of her daughter. With humor and care, McMurtry presents a fulfilling tale of growing old and moving on.