In the grad school section we get incongruity like this: So why read it, or more importantly, why finish it? The novel’s dialogue is often excellent and a a keen sense of humor runs through. I take McMurtry’s word that “many of the liveliest people” chose grad school at that time, but by the time I started that time had long since vanished and no memory or residue of it remained. In the late fifties, with no war on, the romance of journalism tarnished, the romance of investment banking yet to flower, graduate school was where many of the liveliest people chose to tarry while deciding what to do next. In that introduction he also says something odd: That “puzzling thing” remains to this reader. I am now completely at a loss to explain why I wished to attempt this.
Few novels, then or ever, have attempted to merge the radically incongruent worlds of graduate school and rodeo. In the introduction he writes:Ī rather puzzling thing to me, as I look through the book today, is that it contains so many rodeo scenes. Even its author seems to be aware of its flaws. Which is a shame, because there’s a pretty good book waiting, even wanting to get out, but it’s hidden. Moving On is at least twice as long as it ought to be and probably longer.
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