All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers

By Larry McMurtry

Categories: Literature & Fiction

All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers (1972) is a novel by Larry McMurtry, the author of The Last Picture Show. It follows Danny Deck, a young Texas writer whose first novel has just been accepted for publication. Danny drifts between Houston, San Francisco and the Rio Grande, through a sudden marriage, a love affair and encounters with friends and strangers in the literary world. The novel is a comic and melancholy portrait of early success and loneliness.

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• Quentin Tarantino: “I had read Larry McMurtry's All My Friends Will Be Strangers, which is one of my favorite books, and it totally like made me want to write like a book about like my Video Archives years.”