num_pages: 847
description: 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 McMurtry's 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 -- there's 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 America's best-loved authors. Moving On is vintage McMurtry.
language: English
title: Moving On
titlecomplete: Moving On
characters: Joe Percy, Emma Horton-Greenway, Patsy Carpenter
genres: Fiction, Westerns, Drama, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1666
places: Houston, Texas
series: Moving On , Houston
publisher: Pocket