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When the Light Goes

by Larry McMurtry · 2010

In this haunting and elegiac sequel to Duane’s Depressed, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry returns to Thalia, Texas, to explore emotional reinvention, erotic awakening, and the sting of midlife reintegration. Back from a two-week trip to Egypt, Duane finds he cannot readjust to life in Thalia, the small, dusty West Texas hometown in which he has spent all of his life. In the short time he was away, it seems that everything has changed alarmingly. His office barely has a reason to exist now that his son Dickie is running the company from Wichita Falls, his lifelong friends seem to h

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