But there are lovely moments too, all the more meaningful for their rarity, in the occasional spark of wild freedom, sweet cherry pie made by a kind soul, a magnificent sunrise. It's mainly brutal, I'd say, and lonely, and dangerous. It's through Lonnie's eyes that we see the both the brutal and the beautiful aspects of ranch life. He's old, and is the grandfather of the narrator, 17 year old Lonnie. The story is set in Thalia, Texas (the same little town I visited in The Last Picture Show), on a cattle ranch belonging to Homer Bannon, a tough, grizzled horseman. It's also a gorgeous commencement to my reading year. This, the first of thirty-something novels he'd write in his life, is a gorgeous commencement to a remarkable career. Larry McMurtry wrote this brilliant coming-of-age novel in 1962 when he had barely come-of-age himself, at just 25 years old.
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