Last Picture Show Penguin Modern Class

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a powerful comingofage novel set in the American West. In Thalia Texas Larry McMurtry epitomizes smalltown America and through characters reintroduced in Texasville and Duane’s Depressed captures the ecstasy and heartbreak of adolescence. The Last Picture Show is one of Larry McMurtrys most memorable novels and the basis for the enormously popular movie of the same name. Set in a small dusty Texas town The Last Picture Show introduced the characters of Jacy Duane and Sonny teenagers stumbling toward adulthood discovering the beguiling mysteries of sex and the even more baffling mysteries of love. Populated by a wonderful cast of eccentrics and animated by McMurtrys wry and raucous humor The Last Picture Show is a wild heartbreaking and poignant novel that resonates with the magical passion of youth.