A01=Larry McMurtry
Author_Larry McMurtry
casinos
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Las Vegas
love
romance
showgirl
stripper
Vegas
Product details
- ISBN 9781447274667
- Weight: 268g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 08 Oct 2015
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Bittersweet, funny and touching, Larry McMurtry's The Desert Rose is the story of Harmony, a Las Vegas showgirl.
At night she's a lead dancer in a gambling casino; during the day she raises peacocks. She's one of a dying breed of dancers, faced with fewer and fewer jobs and an even bleaker future. Yet she maintains a calm cheerfulness in that arid neon landscape of supermarkets, drive-in wedding chapels, and all-night casinos.
While Harmony's star is fading, her beautiful, cynical daughter Pepper's is on the rise. But Harmony remains wistful and optimistic through it all. She is the unexpected blossom in the wasteland, the tough and tender desert rose.
Larry McMurtry is the author of more than thirty novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. He has also written memoirs and essays, and received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Brokeback Mountain.
