When the Light Goes

When the Light Goes
AuthorLarry McMurtry
LanguageEnglish
Publication date
2007
Publication placeUSA
Preceded byDuane's Depressed 
Followed byRhino Ranch 

When the Light Goes is a 2007 American novel by Larry McMurtry.[1]

It is the fourth in a series of novels about Duane Moore from The Last Picture Show. McMurtry wrote the last two novels in the series "are about the coming of age. "[2]

McMurtry later wrote, " I never thought of Duane as me. Except for a handful of passages — the chapters in Duane’s Depressed that describe his depression — the books aren’t autobiographical. He doesn’t know what I know, despite having been forced by his analyst to read Proust."[3]

References

  1. ^ Leland, John (March 18, 2007). "Duane's Depraved". The New York Times.
  2. ^ McMutry, 2009, p 149
  3. ^ McMutry, 2009, p 167

Notes

  • McMurtry, Larry (2009). Literary Life: A Second Memoir. Simon & Schuster.
  • McMurtry, Larry (2010). Hollywood. Simon & Schuster.