Cadillac Jack.

MCMURTRY, Larry.

Item Number: 146484

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1982.

First edition of “the best novel Larry McMurtry ever wrote.” Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Larry McMurtry on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Corsillo. Uncommon in this condition.

McMurtry's eighth novel, a rollicking, satirical look at life in Washington, DC, "proves his knack for storytelling… In learning to accept himself as a perpetual wanderer, Jack becomes the most satisfying male character McMurtry had yet created, almost a match for his strong female characters" (Jane Nelson). Even as late as 2000—some 15 years after the publication of McMurtry's arguably most famous book Lonesome Dove—the Texas Observer proclaimed Cadillac Jack "the best novel Larry McMurtry ever wrote."