All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers by Larry McMurtry

A young Texas novelist, buoyed by sudden success, drifts from campus life into the lure of big-city publishing and Hollywood, chasing love, validation, and a place to belong. Through a whirlwind marriage, creative temptations, and the fickle loyalties of friends, he learns how easily intimacy fractures under the glare of ambition. What remains is a wry, melancholy reckoning with desire, success, and the transience of companionship.

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