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Some Can Whistle
A Literary Fiction Novel by Larry McMurtry
Book 5 of the Houston Series
Subgenres:
- Contemporary Fiction,
- Family Drama,
- Texas
This book is for you if you're into...
- Estranged parent-child reunions with sharp, messy energy
- Retired TV writers haunted by old flames and sitcom fantasies
- Texas mansions colliding with Hollywood dreams and real-life trouble
McMurtry's follow-up to All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers will capture a whole new audience, opening up the world of the now-millionaire Danny Deck and his strong and passionate daughter T.R...
"Mr. Deck, are you my stinkin' Daddy?" In a furious phone call from T.R., the daughter he's never met, Danny Deck gets the jolt of his life.
A TV writer who's retired to his Texas mansion, Danny spends his days talking to the answering machines of his ex-lovers from New York to Paris and dreaming of the characters in the sitcom he's created.
But suddenly, a hurricane called T.R. is storming into his life...
In his most moving and richly comic contemporary novel since Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the modern West he created so masterfully in The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment.
Some Can Whistle spins a tale of Hollywood glitz and Texas grit; of an extraordinary young woman and a murderous young man; and of a middle-aged millionaire running head-on into the longings, joys, and pathos of real life.
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