Volume 46, Number 19 · December 2, 1999
Back to Life in Texas
By Sue M. Halpern
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond
by Larry McMurtry
Simon and Schuster, 204 pp., $21.00
Duane's Depressed
by Larry McMurtry
Simon and Schuster, 431 pp., $26.00
Near the end of Texasville, the bridge novel in Larry McMurtry's trilogy which begins with The Last Picture Show, the narrator happens to mention that the protagonist, Duane Moore, 'rarely walked.' It's a throwaway line that will only take on significance in Duane's Depressed, the final novel in the trilogy, but it's yet more evidence that Duane, who was first introduced to the reader as a high school football star twenty years before in The Last Picture Show, had grown up to be a man of means but little substance. He is a man so bored with his life that he entertains himself by sitting in a hot tub shooting holes through his dog's luxe, two-story doghouse.
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