Loop Group: A Novel

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Loop Group is Larry McMurtry at his contemporary best a novel that can best be described as Thelma and Louise meets Terms of Endearment in which two aging ladies set out on a road trip that will take them from Hollywood to Texas with many adventures on the way. In perhaps his finest contemporary novel since Terms of Endearment Larry McMurtry with his miraculously sure touch at creating instantly recognizable women characters and his equally miraculous sharp eye for the absurdities of everyday life in the modern West writes about two women old friends who set off on an adventurewith unpredictable and sometimes hilarious results. As Loop Group opens we meet Maggie whose three grown-up daughters have arrived at her Hollywood home to try and make her see sense about her busy life a life that intersects with lots of interestingall right bizarrepeople. Her daughters push her into having a few second thoughts about it and these are reinforced when her best friend Connie seeks an escape from her own world of complex and difficult relationships with men. Maggie conceives the idea of driving to visit her Aunt Cooneys ranch near Electric City Texas and the two women prepare for the trip by buying a .38 Special revolver (which leads to unexpected trouble along the way). This road trip will end by changing their lives. Alternately hilariously funny and profoundly sadeven tragicLoop Group is a major Larry McMurtry novel and a joy to read.