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"The cruising is endless and serves only to connect the short, affectionate, sometimes hilarious vignettes of Americans trading and swapping that give the book its genuine eccentricity." "The trouble is that the characters keep kicking over the traces of the plots and themes. He can write up a mess and still win you over with it." McMurtry has something special going for him. "McMurtry has the faults of a strong but careless writer like Mailer, but they are easily forgiven in this particular novel, which seems so thoroughly a type of 'American' classic withoutĪny of the painless charm of housebroken literature."

' All of My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers'.

Almost as though acknowledging the inability of Patsy, et al., to sustain so long a book, he shores it up with detail." "McMurtry simply doesn't know how to turn off his electric typewriter.

"McMurtry is not exactly a virtuoso at the typewriter. "'Leaving Cheyenne' is brightened and warmed by the author's grasp of his setting and by his ear for the music of talk in Archer County." What's more, his promise is the kind that lasts." " is already well up among the most promising first novelists who have appeared this year. REVIEWS OF LARRY McMURTRY'S EARLIER BOOKS:

Reviews of Larry McMurtry's Earlier Books.