With a riotously colorful cast of highbrows, cowpokes, and rodeo queens, in its wry humor, tenderness, and epic panorama, Moving On is a celebration of our land by Larry McMurtry, one of America’s best-loved authors. Moving On is a big, powerful novel about men and women in the American West. Set in the 1960s against the backdrop of the honky-tonk glamour of the rodeo and the desperation of suburban Houston, it is the story of the restless and lovable Patsy Carpenter, one of Larry McMurtry’s most unforgettable characters. Patsy—young, beautiful, with a sharp tongue and an irresistible charm—and her shiftless husband, Jim, are adrift in the West. Patsy moves through affairs of the heart like small towns—there’s Pete, the rodeo clown, and Hank, the graduate student, and others—always in search of the life that seems ever receding around the next bend. Moving On is vintage McMurtry.

Part Two Of Two Parts Patsy, young and beautiful, takes the easy road. With Jim, her shiftless husband, she drifts through the West, from one rodeo and honky-tonk to another. She and Jim are looking for something, neither knows exactly what. Patsy moves through affairs of the heart like Sherman through Georgia—there's Pete, the rodeo clown; Hank, the graduate student; and others too numerous to remember. Jim looks for fulfillment on the bulls he rides, closing his eyes to the real world. For the two of them, life seems always receding around the next bend, the next turn of the road. "Funny and believable characters to care about. Vintage McMurtry." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)