{"product_id":"9781419312823","title":"Loop Group","description":"In perhaps   his finest \"contemporary\" novel since \u003ci\u003eTerms of Endearment\u003c\/i\u003e, Larry   McMurtry, with his miraculously sure touch at creating instantly recognizable   women characters, and his equally miraculous sharp eye for the absurdities of   everyday life in the modern West, writes about two women, old friends, who set   off on an adventure?with unpredictable and sometimes hilarious   results.\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eLoop Group\u003c\/i\u003e   opens, we meet Maggie, whose three grown-up daughters have arrived at her   Hollywood home to try and make her see sense about her life, which isn’t easy,   first of all because their own lives are a mess, and secondly because as far as   Maggie is concerned her own life makes perfect sense. She is self-supporting,   running a successful \"loop group\" dubbing movies, she has a lover (admittedly he   is married, and her psychoanalyst, and very old), and leads a busy life that   intersects with lots of interesting?all right,   bizarre?people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Still, her daughters   push her into having a few second thoughts about her life, and these are   reinforced when her best friend, Connie seeks an escape from her own world of   complex and difficult relationships with men. Since neither high-end nor low-end   shopping seems to relieve their angst, and since a succession of sad events   takes place that shakes Maggie to the core, she conceives the idea of driving to   visit her Aunt Cooney’s ranch near Electric City, Texas, and the two women   prepare for the trip by buying a .38 Special revolver (which leads to unexpected   trouble along the way). This road trip will end by changing their   lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Tangling along the way   with Hopi Indians, with a bearded vagrant who turns out to be an old   acquaintance, with the theft of their car (and their revolver), and with every   possible variety of cardsharp, faker, charmer, and crook, the two women   eventually proceed through the desert landscape to Electric City, and discover   some home truths about life. When they return to Hollywood, they find that one   of Maggie’s old friends, an ancient MGM producer, has left her a gift that   enables her to make a new start to her life and to bring a new measure of sanity   to her family and friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Alternately   hilariously funny and profoundly sad-even tragic-\u003ci\u003eLoop Group\u003c\/i\u003e is a major   Larry McMurtry novel and a joy to read.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044097704176,"sku":"9781419312823","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781419312823_p0.jpg?v=1763728407","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781419312823","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}