The Late Child

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he Late Child is Larry McMurtry's tender, comic and haunting sequel to The Desert Rose, a story with many of the same qualities that made Terms of Endearment such an unforgettable book and which distinguish McMurtry's fiction: a rich cast of characters; a sense of people adrift in a landscape too large for comfort; a determination for life, love and happiness, "whatever the odds; and a keen awarenesá, rare in modern fiction, of the unique relationship between mother and child. Harmony is the optimistic, resilient Las Vegas ex-showgirl who returns from work at a Las Vegas recycling plánt one day to discover that her beautiful, beloved daughter, Pepper, has died of AIDS. In an effort to right herself and come to grips with her loss, Harmony leaves for New York City with her five-yearold son Eddie and her two quarrelsome sisters, Neddie and Pat, to seek out Pepper's girlfriend-and to find a way to understand and accept Pepper's death. At once an odyssey sending its characters on a... Tovább

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he Late Child is Larry McMurtry's tender, comic and haunting sequel to The Desert Rose, a story with many of the same qualities that made Terms of Endearment such an unforgettable book and which distinguish McMurtry's fiction: a rich cast of characters; a sense of people adrift in a landscape too large for comfort; a determination for life, love and happiness, "whatever the odds; and a keen awarenesá, rare in modern fiction, of the unique relationship between mother and child. Harmony is the optimistic, resilient Las Vegas ex-showgirl who returns from work at a Las Vegas recycling plánt one day to discover that her beautiful, beloved daughter, Pepper, has died of AIDS. In an effort to right herself and come to grips with her loss, Harmony leaves for New York City with her five-yearold son Eddie and her two quarrelsome sisters, Neddie and Pat, to seek out Pepper's girlfriend-and to find a way to understand and accept Pepper's death. At once an odyssey sending its characters on a journey across America-from Las Vegas to New York, to the White House, to rural Oklahoma-and a story of loss and recovery, The Late Child is McMurtry at his best. Along the way, we meet a host of engaging characters: a teenage hooker and her boyfriend, Sonny Le Song; Omar, Abdul and Salah, three Indián taxi entrepreneurs; and a dog named Iggy, who becomes a national celebrity and gets to meet the President of the United States. The eccentricities of these people are dwarfed by Harmony's family when Harmony, Eddie Vissza