A poignant, richly comic follow-up to All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers, Larry McMurtry revisits now-millionaire Danny Deck as the daughter he’s never met upends his comfortable world.
“Mr. Deck, are you my stinkin’ Daddy?”
In a furious phone call from T.R.—the daughter he’s never met—Danny Deck gets the biggest jolt of his life. A TV writer who has retired to his Texas mansion, Danny spends his days talking to the answering machines of his ex-lovers from New York to Paris and dreaming of the characters in the sitcom he’s created. But suddenly, a hurricane called T.R. is storming into his life...
In his most moving and richly comic contemporary novel since Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the modern West he created so masterfully in The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment. Some Can Whistle spins a tale of Hollywood glitz and Texas grit; of an extraordinary young woman and a murderous young man; and of a middle-aged millionaire running head-on into the longings, joys, and pathos of real life.
