Leaving Cheyenne
{{Short description|1963 novel by Larry McMurtry}}
{{For|the novel published in the UK in 1990 as Leaving Cheyenne|Borderlands (novel)}}
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| series = Thalia: A Texas Trilogy
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| publisher = Harper & Row
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| pub_date = 1963
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| pages = 298 (hardcover first edition)
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| isbn = 0140052216
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| preceded_by = Horseman, Pass By
| followed_by = The Last Picture Show
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Leaving Cheyenne is the second novel written by author Larry McMurtry. It was published in 1963. The novel portrays the lives of people living in Texas from about 1920 to about 1965.{{Cite web |date=June 15, 1963 |title=Leaving Cheyenne: A Novel |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/larry-mcmurtry/leaving-cheyenne/ |access-date=March 31, 2024 |website=Kirkus Reviews}}{{Cite web |last=Sprague|first=Marshall|date=October 16, 1963 |title=Texas Triptych |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/07/home/mcmurtry-cheyenne.html?_r=1&oref=slogin |access-date=2024-04-01 |website=The New York Times}}
Leaving Cheyenne is written in three parts. Each is a first person account from one of the main characters involved in a life-long love triangle: Gideon, Johnny, and Molly.
The novel was adapted into the 1974 film Lovin' Molly, starring Anthony Perkins and Beau Bridges.
Film adaptation
Film rights to the novel were purchased by Warner Bros. in 1964. McMurtry says Warner wanted to call the film Gid, after the lead character Gideon, to cash in on the success of the 1963 movie Hud, based on McMurty's first novel, Horseman, Pass By. McMurtry said, "Something like seven scripts ensued, one of them done by Robert Altman, another of them nursed along for years by Don Siegel. Insidiously unfilmic, the book resisted all but the most foolhardy efforts to drag it onto celluloid, until, in 1974, it finally succumbed to the abundantly foolhardy efforts of Stephen Friedman and Sidney Lumet and appeared as Lovin' Molly".{{cite book|first=Larry |last=McMurtry |page=6 |title=Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York|year=1987|isbn=0743216245}}{{Cite web |last=O'Neal |first=Sean |date=2022-09-27 |title=The Film That Set the Standard on How Not to Portray Texas |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/playing-texan-lovin-molly-mcmurtry/ |access-date=2024-04-01 |website=Texas Monthly |language=en}}
References
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Category:Western (genre) novels
Category:American novels adapted into films
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