Some Can Whistle

McMurtrys follow-up to All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers will capture a whole new audience opening up the world of the now-millionaire Danny Deck and his strong and passionate daughter T.R... Mr. Deck are you my stinkin Daddy? In a furious phone call from T.R. the daughter hes never met Danny Deck gets the jolt of his life. A TV writer whos 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 hes created. But suddenly a hurricane called T.R. is storming into his life... 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.