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Title: Cadillac Jack Runs out of Gas
Review: Surprisingly, master storyteller Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, Terms of Endearment) has written a book with virtually no plot. Cadillac Jack describes a month or so in the life of an antiques dealer on the road. In Jack's world, all people are eccentrics with funny names like Pencil Penrose and Sir Cripps Crisp, and all women he finds attractive are willing to sleep with him at the drop of a hat. Set in the pre-AIDS era, the book reflects a cavalier attitude about sexual responsibility that may appall late 1990's sensibilities. Nevertheless, Cadillac Jack is amusingly written, especially when it describes the bizarre and wonderful antiques that are the real objects of Jack's passion. Not bad, but compared to McMurtry's epic works, Cadillac Jack has a flat tire.
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