Larry McMurtry can write. Well. This wasn't the best of plots, and I couldn't exactly relate to the drifting and unfaithful narrator, but almost every chapter there was some description or dialogue that just grabbed me. The writing rather than the characters or action made it a book I really enjoyed reading. The book describes the young writer Danny Deck, who marries a young woman he wakes up next to at a party just as his writing career is taking off. He soon takes off as well, fleeing with his new wife from his final year of college and heading to San Francisco. The book basically follows his fumbling through a quick string of relationships, and his inability to really succeed at any of them. The male characters are far more developed than the female characters, all of whom need to be rescued from something.