This novel combines a coming-of-age story with an affectionate but unsentimental look at a small Western town: Thalia, Texas. A stand-in for McMurtry's own home town, Thalia is revealed in all its damaging hypocrisy and repression. The story follows Sonny and his friend Duane, teenagers who both lust after Jacy Farrow, the town beauty. Sam the Lion, a former rancher who owns the local movie theater, serves as a surrogate father for the boys and was once a lover of Jacy's mother. As the boys grow up, one goes to Vietnam and the other struggles to make a life in the town, a victim of his own nostalgia.
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