The Desert Rose
Notes: A novel about a Las Vegas showgirl. In his memoir Literary Life, McMurtry said he wrote this novel "in twenty-two days" and that the book "seemed to flow out of me as rapidly as I could type. The Desert Rose was supposed to have been a screenplay, but, to my intense relief, it came out as a novel. I had hardly written a sentence I liked for eight years: to actually enjoy my own prose again was a big, big deal" (p. 91).
254 pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket (no remainder mark). A very nice copy. Inscribed, "For Tom, Larry McMurtry" on the front free endpaper.
Publication: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.
ISBN: 0671461435
Item No: #362899
Price: $75