This is comedy, almost slapstick at times, and the workaday details of Hollywood movie production are just not an important a part of the story. Single and lusty as ever, they are still using their Hollywood contacts to hustle a living as part of a “loop group” that provides groans, shrieks, grunts and other sounds as part of the dubbing process used for movie soundtracks.Critics have pointed out that the movie world no longer functions as McMurtry portrays it in Loop Group, if it ever did. Maggie and Connie, best friends since the sixth grade, are two women who simply refuse to act like the sixty-year olds they are. He seems to have a particular fondness for feisty sixty-something year old women, and with Maggie Clary and her best friend Connie, he has created two of the funniest fictional women since Terms of Endearment’s Aurora Greenway. Larry McMurtry has always had the knack of creating memorably quirky characters for his novels and Loop Group is no exception. Chapter 67: Book Four: Return Of The Loop Group.Chapter 56: Book Three: The The Chicken Gulag.Maggie conceives the idea of driving to visit her Aunt Cooney’s ranch near Elec. Her daughters push her into having a few second thoughts about it, and these are reinforced when her best friend, Connie, seeks an escape from her own world of complex and difficult relationships with men. In perhaps his finest contemporary novel since Terms of Endearment, Larry McMurtry, with his miraculously sure touch at creating instantly recognizable women characters and his equally miraculous sharp eye for the absurdities of everyday life in the modern West, writes about two women, old friends, who set off on an adventure-with unpredictable and sometimes hilarious results.Īs Loop Group opens, we meet Maggie, whose three grown-up daughters have arrived at her Hollywood home to try and make her see sense about her busy life, a life that intersects with lots of interesting-all right, bizarre-people. Loop Group is Larry McMurtry at his contemporary best, a novel that can best be described as Thelma and Louise meets Terms of Endearment, in which two aging ladies set out on a road trip that will take them from Hollywood to Texas, with many adventures on the way.
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