Duane's depressed a novel
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Beverly Hills, CA] : Phoenix Books, [2007].
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 13:06:25. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Joe Barrett. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 188407 KB; MP3 file size: 369607 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Middle-aged men -- Fiction Thalia (Tex. : Imaginary place) -- Fiction City and town life -- Fiction Depression, Mental -- Fiction Texas -- Fiction |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Psychological fiction. Love stories. Audiobooks. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
In The Last Picture Show and Texasville, Larry McMurtry created a cast that achieved instant recognition, both in print and on the screen-Duane, his friend and rival, Sonny, Jacy, Ruth Popper, Karla, Lester, and the oil-patch town of Thalia. Now, in Duane's Depressed, McMurtry brings the Thalia saga to an end with Duane confronting depression in the midst of plenty. Surrounded by his children, wife, and friends all of whom seem to be going through life crises-Duane can't seem to make sense of his anymore and shocks his loved ones and the local countryside by giving up his pickup truck to go on foot (and later by bike), a sure sign of depression, if not madness, by local community standards. Utterly unsentimental, often hilarious, sometimes tragic and shocking, and in the end full of hope, Duane's Depressed is a major work art by any standard.