Some Can Whistle Author:Larry McMurtry Not since Terms of Endearment has the Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of Lonesome Dove and Anything for Billy touched the heart so deeply as he does in this story of a father learning to love a daughter he has never met. Danny Deck (the hero of All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers) is now a successful, middle-aged Texan writer who has made a f... more »ortune in the TV business in L.A., and returned home to his quiet, expensive and eccentric way of life, keeping in touch with his girlfriends by leaving messages on their answering machines all over the world, and avoiding any contact with the harsh realities of the rest of the real world as much as he can. Into the quiet existence of this Texas version of Oblomov, who spends his days lounging around in a kaftan, comes an unexpected telephone call from T.R., the daughter he has never seen, which changes Danny's life, and those of everyone around him, including T.R. herself. She brings into her father's hesitant and somewhat fatalistic embrace her two children; one lover, Muddy, who is a failed burglar; and another; Earl Dee, who is perhaps Larry McMurtry's most chilling creation since Blue Duck in Lonesome Dove, as well as a mixed beg of camp followers. In this bemused and loving conflict between T.R. - a life-loving conflict between T.R. - a life-loving girl and emotional realist - and Danny, who has retreated so far from life that the answering machine is his most significant form of communication, Larry McMurtry has created a book that is at once tender and tragic, a love story between father and daughter which restores Danny to the world of feelings only a heartbeat before it's too late, and draws T.R., McMurtry's most endearing and gutsy heroine since Jacy in The Last Picture Show, to the violent edge of love. Larry McMurtry's new book is a brilliant masterpiece, richly comic, profoundly moving, totally real.« less