If nothing else, this book shows what a wonderful and talented writer does when the well goes dry. This was horrible. The characters are all one dimensional, there's nothing particularly interesting about the plot, and who cares what happens to Maggie! The man who wrote Movin On, Terms of Endearment, and Lonesome Dove did not write this crap. Obviously Mr. McMurtry knows that his place in American literature is secure, so now he can throw out this type of drivel. Needless to say, I will not be buying this novel to add to my McMurtry collection.