{"product_id":"loop-group-a-novel-9780743250955","title":"Loop Group: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eLoop 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67661006798901,"sku":"ByrdShop_0743250958","price":59.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780743250955.jpg?v=1791907670","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/loop-group-a-novel-9780743250955","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}