324 pages are dedicated to Aurora while Emma gets the last 47. But, true to McMurtry form, by the end Emma is a strong, defiant woman.My only disappointment about Terms of Endearment is the inclusion of Book II, Emma's story.
She hasn't been educated and she has bad hair. The strength of their relationship and the depth of their love for one another isn't readily apparent until life gets complicated for Emma. Emma, her daughter, at first appears to be one of Aurora's victims - always manipulated and belittled. Her story takes up the first 324 pages and by the end of it you realize she is a woman of conviction who simply tells it like it is.
Selfish and conniving, she bends situations to suite her ever-changing needs.
At first she appears caustic and self-centered. She has five different "suitors" who tolerate her abrasive tongue and haughty manner and despite all that, continuously vie for her hand in marriage. Aurora is a Boston widow transplanted to Houston, Texas. It's the story of a mother and daughter and the relationships that orbit around them. By the end of the book I had completely changed my mind about everything and everyone.The premise for Terms of Endearment is really quite simple. I saw Aurora as nasty and Emma as just plain pathetic. I didn't think I would like a single character. I was shocked by the hatred these people carried around (see 'shocking quotes' below). In the beginning I saw Terms as a story about a bunch of miserable people. Larry McMurtry has the ability to make you change your mind about the people you veral times over. Urn:oclc:30816414 Scandate 20100929170515 Scanner of Endearment is the kind of book that makes you feel things. OL134609W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.82 Pages 440 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0451126513 Urn:lcp:termsofendearmenmcm00mcmu:epub:120646de-fabc-4872-a6f8-d534591f25f1 Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier termsofendearmenmcm00mcmu Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6m04wp7n Isbn 0671758721ĩ780671758721 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:02:03 Boxid IA127606 Boxid_2 CH100401 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid_2 X0001 Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier
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