![]() ![]() This is only the second Larry McMurtry I have read – and I am now a firm fan. The relationships explored in this novel are of those between a mother and her daughter, between wives and husbands, friend’s, employees and lovers – with all these people mixing together – in what feels like one huge complex family. The characters are huge and memorable, and wonderfully eccentric. I loved every page of this wonderful novel. In 1986 he won the Pulitzer Prize for LONESOME DOVE. McMurtry earned a masters degree from Rice University in 1960 and quickly rose to international fame as a premier American writer. His father and eight uncles were all ranchers. In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Awardwinning motion picture, Larry McMurtry created two unforgettable characters who won the hearts of readers and moviegoers everywhere. THE AUTHOR Larry McMurtry was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1936. Then, with the devastating discovery that Emma has cancer, Aurora slowly learns to adapt and compromise. As Emma grows up, the relationship between mother and daughter is full of tension and disagreement – not least over Emma’s choice of husband, who Aurora disapproves of. ![]() Come to laugh, come to cry, come to care, come to terms. Brooks, based on the novel by Larry McMurtry. Widowed, Aurora has an infant daughter, Emma, of whom she is at first overprotective. Terms of Endearment is a 1983 film about the often stormy relationship between Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma. ![]() Aurora Greenway is the kind of woman who makes the world turn around her – including her string of devoted suitors. ![]()
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