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Thalia News: Meanwhile back at the "Ranch" (San Diego Union-Tribune)
After more than two-dozen novels, Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry is still on his game. In 1966, he introduced readers to restless Thalia, Texas, teenager Duane Moore in 'The Last Picture Show.' Sex and football kept Duane sane through high school in the bleak, lifeless town where he seemed destined to live out the rest of his days.