Loop Group

In perhaps his finest "contemporary" novel since Terms of Endearment, Larry McMurtry, with his miraculously sure touch at creating instantly recognizable women characters, and his equally miraculous sharp eye for the absurdities of everyday life in the modern West, writes about two women, old friends, who set off on an adventure?with unpredictable and sometimes hilarious results.

Loop Group opens, we meet Maggie, whose three grown-up daughters have arrived at her …