Terms of Endearment – Larry McMurtry | 1st Edition 1975

$59.00

Author: Larry McMurtry
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, NY, 1975
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Size: 8vo
Attributes: First Edition, Dust Jacket

First edition, first printing. Spine ends slightly rubber, a stain on page’s edge. Internally clean. Very good in VG DJ.

Terms of Endearment – Larry McMurtry (1975)

This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (adapted into the iconic 1983 film) is a sprawling, bittersweet saga of the turbulent relationship between Aurora Greenway, a sharp-tongued Houston widow, and her daughter Emma Horton, whose lives intertwine through love, loss, and resilience. McMurtry’s signature blend of wry humor and unflinching pathos dissects family bonds with surgical precision, shifting between Aurora’s comedic romantic entanglements and Emma’s struggles with marriage and mortality.

For Fans of Family Epics:

The Evening Star (McMurtry’s 1992 sequel) – Aurora’s late-life reckoning.
Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout – Another prickly matriarch under a microscope.
A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley – King Lear on a farm, with similar emotional heft.

“Where love is a battlefield, and the truce terms are never fair.”