Some Can Whistle [SIGNED By Author]

New York: Simon and Schuster. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscription, signed by the author on ffep - "For John / A tragic / not to say / sombre story / in friendship / Larry McMurtry." Otherwise clean and secure in original binding of blue cloth spine and cream boards. Dust jacket clean and bright. The recipient was John Gleiber, longtime member of the board of directors and Secretary of the Animal Welfare Institute and former Vice President of the Washington chapter of the Jane Austen Society. "In his most moving and richly comic contemporary novel since Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the modern West he created so masterfully in The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment. Some Can Whistle spins a tale of Hollywood glitz and Texas grit; of an extraordinary young woman and a murderous young man; and of a middle-aged millionaire running head-on into the longings, joys, and pathos of real life. "Mr. Deck, are you my stinkin' Daddy?" In a furious phone call from T.R., the daughter he's never met, Danny Deck gets the jolt of his life. A TV writer who's retired to his Texas mansion, Danny spends his days talking to the answering machines of his ex-lovers from New York to Paris and dreaming of the characters in the sitcom he's created. But suddenly, a hurricane called T.R. is storming into his life..." .