Moving On

About this book

Moving On is a big powerful novel about men and women in the American West. Set in the 1960s against the backdrop of the honky-tonk glamour of the rodeo and the desperation of suburban Houston it is the story of the restless and lovable Patsy Carpenter one of Larry McMurtrys most unforgettable characters. Patsy -- young beautiful with a sharp tongue and an irresistible charm -- and her shiftless husband Jim are adrift in the West. Patsy moves through affairs of the heart like small towns -- theres Pete the rodeo clown and Hank the graduate student and others -- always in search of the life that seems ever receding around the next bend. Peopled with a riotously colorful cast of highbrows cowpokes and rodeo queens in its wry humor tenderness and epic panorama Moving On is a celebration of our land by one of Americas best-loved authors. Moving On is vintage McMurtry.