Pretty Boy Floyd [Import] [Paperback]

LARRY AND DIANA OSSANA. MCMURTRY (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: P/B; New Ed edition (1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1857998898
• ISBN-13: 978-1857998894
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,959,404 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. His other works include two collections of essays, three memoirs, and more than thirty screenplays, including the coauthorship of Brokeback Mountain, for which he received an Academy Award. His most recent novel, When the Light Goes, is available from Simon & Schuster. He lives in Archer City, Texas.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FUNNY AND SAD...AND HIGHLY ENTERTAINING READ!!!, August 8, 2005

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mwyrick (omaha, nebraska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pretty Boy Floyd (Mass Market Paperback)

I don't understand the review by the (supposed) professor...because I don't think he understood this is a work of FICTION. Though it's loosely based upon an historical outlaw, it is a story told by FICTION WRITERS. It was funny, sad, full of colorful, clever, original dialogue, that made me feel as if I knew these characters inside and out. Pretty Boy was considered a folk hero in the late twenties and thirties, professor sir. Read the novel in that context. I think that was the point of the authors--that this was a time and place they wanted to capture with their imaginations, to bring to life for those of us who weren't alive then (and to entertain those who were). It was a rough time, people were poor, hungry, the banks were the enemy because they put entire families out on the streets, with nothing. There was no welfare, no homeless shelters. It was a wild, rough time. I gave this book to my grandpa (a fine, upstanding man if there ever was one), who remembered Pretty Boy Floyd from his own childhood, and he LOVED it!!! If anything, this novel, by the end, shows us how a wrong turn in the road of life can change the course of our entire future...and how hard it is to ever go back...give it a chance, I don't think you'll be disappointed!!!!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thanks, Diana and Larry, July 10, 2006

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Robert Reardon (Colorado Springs, Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pretty Boy Floyd (Mass Market Paperback)

What a breath of fresh air. From the opening scene I was back in McMurtry country (language-wise) - an easy flowing style that is comforting and hypnotic.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sorry, Larry....you're much better as a solo act, February 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Pretty Boy Floyd (Mass Market Paperback)

Since Larry McMurtry was listed as one of the authors of this book, I picked it up and thought I would enjoy it. Boy, was I ever wrong. "Lonesome Dove" was a masterpiece, and so are the other McMurtry books I've read - but this, by comparison, is amateur night. The writing is stiff and reads like something McMurtry might have written when he was just starting out - and then threw in the trash.

Forgive me, Mr. McMurtry, but you're much better as a solo act, and I'm only sorry that you're not going to write any more novels about that wonderful pair, Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call.