For several years McMurtry has been a partner in a Georgetown bookstore specializing in used and rare books this setting and this experience in merchandizing "collectible" wares seem to provide the inspiration for the new novel, the story of a footloose Texan "antiques scout" who comes to Washington to wheel and deal. The territory he has chosen is Washington, though "Cadillac Jack" is scarcely a "Washington novel" in the received sense of the term. To be sure, it is a brave effort on McMurtry's part, for it represents perhaps his most concerted effort to wrench himself away from Texas and locate his work in new settings but more than anything it reveals McMurtry to be uncomfortable on alien ground and unclear about what to make of it. Though it does have its sharp, perceptive, distinctive moments (it is impossible for me to imagine a McMurtry novel wholly devoid of such moments), overall it is a real mess of a book. "Cadillac Jack," alas, falls among McMurtry's failures - falls with a resounding thud. But his worst novels - "All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers," "Somebody's Darling" - are shapeless, purposeless, perfunctory. His best novels - "Leaving Cheyenne," "The Last Picture Show," "Terms of Endearment" - are funny, moving and pungent slices of what is quite clearly real life his collection of essays, "In a Narrow Grave," is arguably the best book ever written about Texas. Larry McMurtry is a writer of exceptional gifts and spectacularly uneven accomplishments.
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