signed first edition
1975 · New York
by McMurtry, Larry
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine book in like jacket. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Book with a remainder mark at the lower edge of the text block, partially defaced. Price-clipped jacket a little rubbed on the rear panel and slightly faded at the spine. But a handsome copy overall.
"There is something very winning about Larry McMurtry's novel Terms of Endearment--something that makes one keep reading along. Maybe it's for the star of the story, Aurora Greenway of Houston by way of New Haven, an impossibly self-centered widow with the redeeming virtue of knowing how difficult she is...Or maybe what keeps one entertained is the sympathy wth which McMurtry writes about these people" (New York Times). As Aurora navigates her daughter's rise to adulthood and motherhood, and tries to manage her own bevy of suitors, she tackles key questions of identity, aging, and family duty that cause hilarity and sorrow. Adapted into the Oscar winning film starring Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (Inventory #: 6995)
"There is something very winning about Larry McMurtry's novel Terms of Endearment--something that makes one keep reading along. Maybe it's for the star of the story, Aurora Greenway of Houston by way of New Haven, an impossibly self-centered widow with the redeeming virtue of knowing how difficult she is...Or maybe what keeps one entertained is the sympathy wth which McMurtry writes about these people" (New York Times). As Aurora navigates her daughter's rise to adulthood and motherhood, and tries to manage her own bevy of suitors, she tackles key questions of identity, aging, and family duty that cause hilarity and sorrow. Adapted into the Oscar winning film starring Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (Inventory #: 6995)
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