The Desert Rose
1983 novel by Larry McMurtry
| Author | Larry McMurtry |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
Publication date | 1983 |
| Publication place | USA |
The Desert Rose is a 1983 novel by Larry McMurtry about a Las Vegas showgirl.[1]
McMurtry always had a great deal of affection for the book saying that he suffered "a literary gloom that lasted from 1975 until 1983, when the miracle of The Desert Rose snapped me out of it."[2] He wrote the book in 21 days saying it was "a book that seemed to flow out of me as rapidly as I could type. The Desert Rose was supposed to have been a screenplay, but, to my intense relief, it came out a novel. I had hardly written a sentence I liked for eight years: to actually enjoy my own prose again was a big, big deal."[3]
References
Notes
- McMurtry, Larry (2009). Literary Life: A Second Memoir. Simon & Schuster.
- McMurtry, Larry (2010). Hollywood: A Third Memoir. Simon & Schuster.
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Larry McMurtry
- Horseman, Pass By (1961)
- Leaving Cheyenne (1963)
- The Last Picture Show (1966)
- Moving On (1970)
- All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers (1972)
- Terms of Endearment (1975)
- Somebody's Darling (1978)
- Cadillac Jack (1982)
- The Desert Rose (1983)
- Lonesome Dove (1985)
- Texasville (1987)
- Anything for Billy (1988)
- Some Can Whistle (1989)
- Buffalo Girls (1990)
- The Evening Star (1992)
- Streets of Laredo (1993)
- Pretty Boy Floyd (1994)
- Dead Man's Walk (1995)
- The Late Child (1995)
- Comanche Moon (1997)
- Zeke and Ned (1997)
- Duane's Depressed (1999)
- Boone's Lick (2000)
- Sin Killer (2002)
- The Wandering Hill (2003)
- By Sorrow's River (2003)
- Folly and Glory (2004)
- Loop Group (2005)
- Telegraph Days (2006)
- When the Light Goes (2007)
- Rhino Ranch: A Novel (2009)
- The Last Kind Words Saloon (2014)
- Crazy Horse: A Life (1999)
- The Colonel and Little Missie (2005)
- Oh What a Slaughter! (2006)
- Custer (2012)
- Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen (1999)
- Roads: Driving America's Great Highways (2000)
- Paradise (2001)
- Books: A Memoir (2008)
- Literary Life: A Second Memoir (2009)
- Hollywood: A Third Memoir (2010)
- In a Narrow Grave (1968)
- Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood (1987)
- Sacagawea's Nickname (2001)
- The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988)
- Montana (1990)
- Memphis (1992)
- Falling from Grace (1992)
- Streets of Laredo (1995)
- Johnson County War (2002)
- Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- Joe Bell (2020)
- Hud (1963)
- The Last Picture Show (1971)
- Lovin' Molly (1974)
- Terms of Endearment (1983)
- Lonesome Dove (1989)
- Texasville (1990)
- Return to Lonesome Dove (1993)
- Lonesome Dove: The Series (1994-95)
- Streets of Laredo (1995)
- Buffalo Girls (1995)
- Lonesome Dove: The Series (1995–96)
- Dead Man's Walk (1996)
- The Evening Star (1996)
- Comanche Moon (2008)
