The Desert Rose: The Desert Rose Series, Book 1
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry writes novels set in the American heartland, but his real territory is the heart itself. His gift for writing about women -- their love for reckless, hopeless men; their ability to see the good in losers; and their peculiar combination of emotional strength and sudden weakness -- makes The Desert Rose the bittersweet, funny, and touching book that it is.
Harmony is a Las Vegas showgirl. At night she's a lead dancer in a gambling casino; during the day she raises peacocks. She's one of a dying breed of dancers, faced with fewer and fewer jobs and an even bleaker future. Yet she maintains a calm cheerfulness in that arid neon landscape of supermarkets, drive-in wedding chapels, and all-night casinos. While Harmony's star is fading, her beautiful, cynical daughter Pepper's is on the rise. But Harmony remains wistful and optimistic through it all. She is the unexpected blossom in the wasteland, the tough and tender desert rose. Hers is a loving portrait that only Larry McMurtry could render.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Larry McMurtry. (2010). The Desert Rose: The Desert Rose Series, Book 1. Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Larry McMurtry. 2010. The Desert Rose: The Desert Rose Series, Book 1. Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Larry McMurtry, The Desert Rose: The Desert Rose Series, Book 1. Simon & Schuster, 2010.
MLA Citation (style guide)Larry McMurtry. The Desert Rose: The Desert Rose Series, Book 1. Simon & Schuster, 2010. Web.
Library | Owned | Available |
---|---|---|
Anne Arundel County Public Library | 1 | 0 |
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0439-1/{F64EDE56-5FA4-4D95-8766-5FF5E84D24CB}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0439-1/{F64EDE56-5FA4-4D95-8766-5FF5E84D24CB}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0439-1/F64/EDE/56/{F64EDE56-5FA4-4D95-8766-5FF5E84D24CB}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0439-1/F64/EDE/56/{F64EDE56-5FA4-4D95-8766-5FF5E84D24CB}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781439128831
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B003NE6HIO
- name: Kindle Book
- id: ebook-kindle
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781439128831
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780684853840
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Larry McMurtry
- title
- The Desert Rose
- dateAdded
- 2017-04-25T11:58:00-04:00
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=51&titleID=346505
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Maryland's Digital Library (MD)
- id: 831
- sortTitle
- Desert Rose The Desert Rose Series Book 01
- crossRefId
- 346505
- series
- The Desert Rose
- subtitle
- The Desert Rose Series, Book 1
- id
- f64ede56-5fa4-4d95-8766-5ff5e84d24cb
- starRating
- 2.5
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- fileName: DesertRoseTheDesertRoseSeriesBook019781439128831
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 1870949
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781439128831
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 0
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 06/01/2010
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0439-1/F64/EDE/56/DesertRoseTheDesertRoseSeriesBook029781439128831.epub
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F64EDE56-5FA4-4D95-8766-5FF5E84D24CB&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: DesertRoseTheDesertRoseSeriesBook019781439128831
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B003NE6HIO
- name: Kindle Book
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 06/01/2010
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0439-1/F64/EDE/56/DesertRoseTheDesertRoseSeriesBook029781439128831.epub
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F64EDE56-5FA4-4D95-8766-5FF5E84D24CB&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: DesertRoseTheDesertRoseSeriesBook019781439128831
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781439128831
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 06/01/2010
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0439-1/F64/EDE/56/DesertRoseTheDesertRoseSeriesBook029781439128831.epub
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F64EDE56-5FA4-4D95-8766-5FF5E84D24CB&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: McMurtry, Larry
- bioText: Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lives in Archer City, Texas.
- name: Larry McMurtry
- publishDate
- 2010-06-01T00:00:00-04:00
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- The Desert Rose
- fullDescription
Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry writes novels set in the American heartland, but his real territory is the heart itself. His gift for writing about women -- their love for reckless, hopeless men; their ability to see the good in losers; and their peculiar combination of emotional strength and sudden weakness -- makes The Desert Rose the bittersweet, funny, and touching book that it is.
Harmony is a Las Vegas showgirl. At night she's a lead dancer in a gambling casino; during the day she raises peacocks. She's one of a dying breed of dancers, faced with fewer and fewer jobs and an even bleaker future. Yet she maintains a calm cheerfulness in that arid neon landscape of supermarkets, drive-in wedding chapels, and all-night casinos. While Harmony's star is fading, her beautiful, cynical daughter Pepper's is on the rise. But Harmony remains wistful and optimistic through it all. She is the unexpected blossom in the wasteland, the tough and tender desert rose. Hers is a loving portrait that only Larry McMurtry could render.
- reviews
- premium: False
- source: The Washington Post Book World
- content: Beautiful....Unquestionably one of [McMurtry's] best novels.
- premium: False
- source: The New Yorker
- content: Sad and sweet yet rigorously unsentimental. Mr. McMurtry has the power to clutch the heart and also somehow to exhilarate.
- premium: False
- source: Los Angeles Times
- content: Warm and funny...McMurtry can transform ordinary words into highly lyrical, poetic passages...and presents human dramas with a sympathy and compassion that make us care about his characters in ways that most novelists can't.
- popularity
- 23
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L2BaQAAAOQCAAA1L/products/f64ede56-5fa4-4d95-8766-5ff5e84d24cb/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- f64ede56-5fa4-4d95-8766-5ff5e84d24cb
- starRating
- 2.5
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0439-1/{F64EDE56-5FA4-4D95-8766-5FF5E84D24CB}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0439-1/{F64EDE56-5FA4-4D95-8766-5FF5E84D24CB}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0439-1/F64/EDE/56/{F64EDE56-5FA4-4D95-8766-5FF5E84D24CB}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0439-1/F64/EDE/56/{F64EDE56-5FA4-4D95-8766-5FF5E84D24CB}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Fiction
- value: Literature
- value: Western
- publishDateText
- 06/01/2010
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780684853840
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry writes novels set in the American heartland, but his real territory is the heart itself. His gift for writing about women -- their love for reckless, hopeless men; their ability to see the good in losers; and their peculiar combination of emotional strength and sudden weakness -- makes The Desert Rose the bittersweet, funny, and touching book that it is.
Harmony is a Las Vegas showgirl. At night she's a lead dancer in a gambling casino; during the day she raises peacocks. She's one of a dying breed of dancers, faced with fewer and fewer jobs and an even bleaker future. Yet she maintains a calm cheerfulness in that arid neon landscape of supermarkets, drive-in wedding chapels, and all-night casinos. While Harmony's star is fading, her beautiful, cynical daughter Pepper's is on the rise. But Harmony remains wistful and optimistic through it all. She is the unexpected blossom in the wasteland, the tough and tender desert rose. Hers is a...
- sortTitle
- Desert Rose The Desert Rose Series Book 01
- crossRefId
- 346505
- series
- The Desert Rose
- subtitle
- The Desert Rose Series, Book 1
- publisher
- Simon & Schuster