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Whatever Happened to Jacy Farrow?
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Whatever Happened to Jacy Farrow? Hardcover - 1997

by Cleveland, Ceil

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University of North Texas Press, 1997-11-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!
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  • Title Whatever Happened to Jacy Farrow?
  • Author Cleveland, Ceil
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 321
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of North Texas Press, Denton, Texas
  • Date 1997-11-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Q-157441030X
  • ISBN 9781574410303 / 157441030X
  • Weight 1.56 lbs (0.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.33 x 1.16 in (23.67 x 16.08 x 2.95 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Texas
  • Library of Congress subjects Cleveland, Ceil - Childhood and youth, Archer City (Tex.) - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97022946
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the rear cover

Ceil Cleveland and Larry McMurtry grew up as friends in the little Texas town of Archer City, fictionalized by McMurtry in The Last Picture Show, which later became a film by Peter Bogdanovich. Among the locals, Cleveland has long been assumed to be the principal model for the novel's iconic character, Jacy Farrow - played in the movie by Cybill Shepherd. Says Cleveland: "In modern American literature, especially Texas literature, Jacy has become an archetype: a beautiful, flirty, teasing, bitchy, blonde in a convertible.... Now this Jacy wants to tell her story ... my story". The boys' world in Thalia - the legitimate one of football, rodeos, learning to cuss, and dreaming about girls - was the world of Texas in that era. Girls had bit parts. We could play if we learned our lines and attempted no ad lib. Some of us were cheerleaders, jumping, squealing, shaking our hips and pom-poms, the rewards of the boys on the field after the game was over.... I projected myself into every picture show I saw. I was there - learning to act, to walk, to dress, to speak, to attract or dismiss men. I had no other way of forecasting my future".

Media reviews

Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 10/20/1997, Page 68

About the author

Ceil Cleveland, a fifth-generation Texan, daughter of pioneer ranchers and teachers, has taught at several universities, and currently serves as Vice President for University Affairs of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She lives on the North Shore of Long Island with her husband.