The Desert Rose
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
[edit]- ^ "The Desert Rose: A Novel". Kirkus Reviews. September 1, 1983.
- ^ McMurtry, 2009 p 84
- ^ McMurtry 2009 p 91
Notes
[edit]- McMurtry, Larry (2009). Literary Life: A Second Memoir. Simon & Schuster.
- McMurtry, Larry (2010). Hollywood: A Third Memoir. Simon & Schuster.