The Desert Rose

Author: McMurtry, Larry
Title: The Desert Rose
Publication: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983. First Edition
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hardcover. A novel about a Las Vegas showgirl. In his memoir Literary Life, McMurtry said he wrote this novel "in twenty-two days" and that the book "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 as 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" (p. 91).

254 pages. Fine / Fine.

First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket (no remainder mark). A very nice copy. Inscribed, "For Tom, Larry McMurtry" on the front free endpaper. From the collection of Tom Garner.

Seller ID: 362899

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