Rhino Ranch

ByLarry McMurtry

Release Date: 2010-06-01
Genre: Literary Fiction

Score: 4

From 111 Ratings

Description

In his signature, elegiac prose, Larry McMurtry bids a heartfelt farewell to Duane Moore and the transformative town of Thalia, Texas, in Rhino Ranch, the concluding novel of the Duane Moore saga.

Returning home after a near-fatal heart attack, Duane arrives in Thalia to find his once-dusty oil patch town transformed. His new neighbor, resilient billionaire K.K. Slater, has established Rhino Ranch, a wildlife nature preserve dedicated to preserving endangered black rhinos on former ranchland.

Feeling estranged from the world he helped build, Duane reflects on past loves, fading opportunities, and the shifting values of a small-town America in flux. As he observes the convergence of wildlife conservation, economic change, and new romantic possibilities with K.K., he’s forced to grapple with loss, memory, and identity.

With humor, warmth, and bittersweet wisdom, Rhino Ranch elegantly closes the Duane Moore series. It’s a moving American literary fiction journey rooted in Texas tradition, exploring themes of aging, family legacy, and the endurance of spirit.

Reviews

Rhino Ranch
4
By GibHoxie
Kind of worn out the Texas yarn. Good dialogue, but tired tropes of cowboys, oil guys, and layabouts and their obsession with their dicks and their women, who are rich and feckless or poor and salt-of-the-earth heroines who can’t help loving those tropes. Time to retire the formula.
Rhino Ranch
5
By Ukko Kotila
Excellent. Saw myself in it, a little too strongly sometimes.
Reliably Good Writing... As Usual
5
By ashleyfossett
Good characters, good writing, enjoyable casual read. Nothing too fast or furious like the cotton candy of most books trying too hard to match the sound bites and snapshots of the frenetic modern world. Just moves along at the right pace. McMurtry knows his job and does it well, keeping it interesting.