Somebody's Darling

by Larry McMurtry

Book Overview

Pulitzer Prize-winning Larry McMurtry writes like no one else about the American frontier. In Somebody's Darling, the frontier lies farther west, in Hollywood, where his subject is the strange world of the movies -- those who make them and those who play in them. Somebody's Darling is the story of the fortunes of Jill Peel. Jill is brilliant, talented, and disciplined, and one of the best female directors in Tinseltown, or anywhere else. She's got...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671633198
• ISBN13: 9780671633196
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 347 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A great example of McMurtry's diversity

In a novel about one of Larry McMurtry's most lovable female characters, McMurtry shows the literary diversity that has caused some critics to claim that he has the best male insight into the female world of any modern American novelist. The novel develops the stories of memorable but minor characters from All My Friends and Moving On into an insightful look at late 1970s Hollywood, and McMurtry's creative literary strategy shows that he is a master of characterization.