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Larry McMurtry's "big hearted" fiction has been lauded for "taking us places we hadn't known existed" (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books). Cadillac Jack does exactly that, inviting readers into the passenger seat of a pearl-colored Caddy with peach velour-covered seats, joining a rodeo-bulldogger-turned-antique- scout at the wheel. "Superbly comic" (Newsday), this rollicking tale echoes the cultural climate of America today, with the cagey yet charming Jack grappling with the capitol's pretentious elite. As he cruises through relationships with distinctively appealing women--including socialite boutique owner Cindy and discreet mother-of-two Jean--Jack realizes home for him will always be simply barreling down freeways in his Cadillac, wandering the country in search of another obscure treasure.Bolstered with its cast of unforgettable characters, Cadillac Jack entices with the prospect of undiscovered riches around that next bend in the road.… (more)
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If you like the show "American Pickers" you'll recognize the title character--he drives
But the main objects in the book are really the women, who are what you might call Magnificent Creatures--terrifying, inexplicable, pitiless, tragicomic, and not quite real. Jack isn't really up to dealing with them as people so he has an elaborate persona that he uses to simultaneously charm and deflect.
The book itself is also charming, and also tragicomic, and also not quite real.