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The Last Picture Show by Larry Mc. Murtry. The moment when The Last Picture Show became one of my favorite books occurs on page 7. Larry Mc. Murtry describes an orange bulb glowing over the back seat of a school bus and the amorous activities of the two seniors sitting underneath it, but as he does through much of his sometimes poignant, sometimes flagrant, ultimately magnificent coming- of- age novel published in 1. Texas of the early 1.

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Like the bulb, he partially illuminates an entire world. The novel focuses on Sonny Crawford, a soft spoken high school senior in the town of Thalia, where you'll find one street (Main) with any businesses on it.

Three of them- -the pool hall, the diner and the picture show- -are owned by Sam the Lion, a stoic old bachelor who for lack of a family looks after the boys who have none to speak of. This includes a mute bastard named Billy abandoned as a child in front of the movie theater, but also Sonny and his best friend Duane Jackson, an All- Conference fullback who roughnecks with a local drilling crew and lives in the boarding house with Sonny, who makes a living driving a butane truck for Fartley Butane and Propane. Sonny and Duane share a '4. Chevy pickup between them and rotate when Sonny can use the cab to court a smug sophomore, or Duane needs it to neck with his girlfriend Jacy Farrow, whose father got rich in the oil patch and is regarded as the prettiest girl in town. Duane dreams of the day he and Jacy will be married and can perform conjugal activities together, unaware that his girl views him as a distraction from boredom and a tool against her mother Lois, the fiercest woman in town.

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Lois' idea of a suitable boy is Lester Marlow, a citified geek who succeeds in luring Jacy away from a dance at the American Legion Hall to a pool party in Wichita Falls, where the rich kids attend naked. Jacy and Lester had not been gone from the dance ten minutes before word got around that they were going to a swimming party where everyone would be naked. The reason word got around so fast was that Lester told several of the younger kids about it just before he left.

He told them he and Jacy were going to swim naked, just like everybody else. It was almost past belief, but when the kids saw him actually drive away with Jacy they instantly believed it and began to talk about it.

Nothing wilder had ever been heard of in Thalia- -it was even wilder than actually making out, because that was customarily done in the dark and nothing much could be seen. In no time there were groups of excited boys standing around, speculating about the look of Jacy's breasts. They even had a hot argument over whether or not blond girls really had blond hair underneath their panties. Some of the younger, illiterate kids thought that all women had black hair in that particular place, but the better- read youths convinced them otherwise by reference to the panty- dropping scene in I the Jury, a book the local drugstore could never keep in stock.

While Duane experiences the ups and downs of dating a local celebrity, Sonny finds himself without a girl to court. The only other woman in Thalia he lusts in any way after is Genevieve, a punchy waitress pulling down all- night shifts at the diner while her roughneck husband recuperates from an injury. That changes when Coach Popper offers to get Sonny out of his afternoon classes if he'll drive the coach's wife Ruth to a doctor's appointment in Olney. As delicate as a mouse and almost as rarely seen, Ruth finds companionship she desperately needs in Sonny while the boys finds something he desperately needs alone with Ruth. Meanwhile, Jacy begins sneaking away from Duane to cavort with the senior nudists in Wichita Falls every chance she gets. She determines to make their host Bobby Sheen fall in love with her and comes close one late night, until Bobby discovers Jacy is a virgin. Determined to give her backward and country image a makeover, Jacy determines to lose her virginity to Duane on the senior trip to San Francisco.

The only kink in her strategy is Duane, who might not agree to the breakup so easily. Jacy considers becoming more friendly with Sonny and using him to make Duane jealous. When she learns about Sonny and Ruth Popper, Jacy determines to put that romance on ice. Duane is so sick of Thalia he proposes to Sonny that they take off.

With donations from Genevieve and Sam the Lion, the boys drive the furthest they've ever been away from home, to Matamoros, but their adventure south of the border brings more sorrow than it does excitement. Following the senior trip, Jacy activates her battle plan against both Duane and Sonny, but she too discovers that rather than feel empowered by sex, she seems lonelier than ever. Sam the Lion dies from a massive stroke at the poolhall (hide spoiler)] and while Sonny and Billy inherit the poolhall, the picture is ultimately forced to turn out the lights for good. The changes confuse Billy a great deal. All through October, then through November, Billy missed the show.

Sonny didn't know what to do about it, but it was a bad time in general and he didn't know what to do about himself either. He had taken another lease to pump. He wanted to work harder and tire himself out, so he wouldn't have to lie awake at night and feel alone. Nothing much was happening, and he didn't think much was going to. One day he went to Wichita and bought a television set, thinking it might help Billy, but it didn't at all.

Billy would watch it as long as Sonny was around, but the minute Sonny left he left too. He kept going over to the picture show night after night, norther or no norther- -he sat on the sidewalk and waited, cold and puzzled. He knew it would open sooner or later, and Sonny couldn't think of no way to make him understand that it wouldn't. I don't recall high school being nearly as dramatic as portrayed here, while the amount of sex in a time when pregnancy was more difficult to prevent and cast a much greater social stigma strains some credulity in the novel. That said, Mc. Murtry's facility with shaping characters, capturing the landscape of Texas and preserving a certain amount of wit, no matter how tragically some of the events develop is virtuoso. The rose is plain, mostly, only surface thick, like a Young Adult novel.

The emotional range of the story is deep. Loneliness lurks in the background, always, even during the hijinks which Mc. Murtry dives the reader into from a very high and dazzling platform. After civics there was a study hall, and then lunch, a boring time. One year Duane and Jacy had been able to sneak off to the lake and court during lunch, but it was only because Lois Farrow was drinking unusually hard that year and wasn't watching her daughter too closely. Lois was the only woman in Thalia who drank and made no bones about it.

That same year Gene Farrow gave a big barbecue out at a little ranch he owned, and all his employees were invited. Duane was roughnecking for Gene then and took Sonny along on his invitation. Lois was there in a low- necked yellow dress, drinking whiskey as fast as most of the roughnecks drank beer.

She was also shooting craps with anyone who cared to shoot with her. That was the day that Abilene won over a thousand dollars shooting craps, six hundred of it from Lois and the other four hundred from Lester Marlow, who was Jacy's official date. Lois thought Abilene cheated her and wanted Gene to fire him on the spot, but Gene wouldn't. She cussed them both out, got in her Cadillac, and started for town, but the steering wheel got away from her as the Cadillac was speeding up and she smashed into a mesquite tree.

Lois just got out, gave everybody a hard look, and started to town on foot. Nobody stopped her. Gene Farrow got drunk and Abilene kept gambling.