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- catalog abstract ""In 1999 Larry McMurtry, whose wanderlust had been previously restricted to the roads of America, set off for a trip to the paradise of Tahiti and the South Sea Islands in an old-fashioned tub of a cruise boat, at a time when his mother was slipping toward a paradise of her own. Opening up to her son in her final days, his mother makes a stunning revelation of a previous marriage and sends McMurtry on a journey of an entirely different kind." "McMurtry paints a portrait of his parents' marriage against the harsh, violent landscape of west Texas. It is their roots - laced with overtones of hard work, bitter disappointment, and the Puritan ethic - that McMurtry challenges by traveling to Tahiti, a land of lush sensuality and easy living. With fascinating detail, shrewd observations, humorous pathos, and unforgettable characters, he begins to answer some of the questions of what paradise is, whether it exists, and how different it is from life in his hometown of Archer City, Texas."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12135486.
- catalog coverage "Oceania Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Texas Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "Texas, West Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""In 1999 Larry McMurtry, whose wanderlust had been previously restricted to the roads of America, set off for a trip to the paradise of Tahiti and the South Sea Islands in an old-fashioned tub of a cruise boat, at a time when his mother was slipping toward a paradise of her own. Opening up to her son in her final days, his mother makes a stunning revelation of a previous marriage and sends McMurtry on a journey of an entirely different kind." "McMurtry paints a portrait of his parents' marriage against the harsh, violent landscape of west Texas. It is their roots - laced with overtones of hard work, bitter disappointment, and the Puritan ethic - that McMurtry challenges by traveling to Tahiti, a land of lush sensuality and easy living. With fascinating detail, shrewd observations, humorous pathos, and unforgettable characters, he begins to answer some of the questions of what paradise is, whether it exists, and how different it is from life in his hometown of Archer City, Texas."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "159 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Paradise.".
- catalog identifier "0743215656".
- catalog isFormatOf "Paradise.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Simon & Schuster,".
- catalog relation "Paradise.".
- catalog spatial "Oceania Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Texas Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Texas, West Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Texas, West.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 B 21".
- catalog subject "Families Texas, West.".
- catalog subject "Family, Texas, West.".
- catalog subject "McMurtry family.".
- catalog subject "McMurtry, Larry Family.".
- catalog subject "McMurtry, Larry Homes and haunts Texas, West.".
- catalog subject "McMurtry, Larry Journeys Oceania.".
- catalog subject "McMurtry, Larry Travel Oceania.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "PS3563.A319 Z469 2001".
- catalog title "Paradise / Larry McMurtry.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".