All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers

This American classic by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Larry McMurtry, is read by university students worldwide. It’s set in its own time of indulgent decadence where little value is placed on the lives of individuals met by Danny Deck, the sad-sack protagonist, who denigrates his published work to the point of tearing up a copy of the novel he carries with him before drowning his own sorry self in the river of the Rio Grande. Yet, Danny is as much at fault for the sloppy treatment of the company he keeps as his company is for being disingenuous.   

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Everybody knows about Larry McMurtry’s epic western, Lonesome Dove, but far fewer realize that McMurtry was at Stanford with Ken Kesey and Robert Stone in the early 1960s -- and he always had fascinating connections to the sixties counterculture.

All My Friends are Going to Be Strangers is one of McMurtry’s most endearing works: the portrait of a young, beat-influenced writer on an epic series of memorable road trips through Texas and the West. He’s exploring, observing, and questioning everything, including his own craft. The climactic scene, where McMurtry’s protagonist wades out into the Rio Grande to drown his… show more.