Saying this book was well written would be an understatement. My only reason for not giving it 5 stars would be due to some fairly shallow character development. I dont necessarily need to LIKE a character but I do need a little more development than was given here to most of the main cast of the story.

As a side note, holy crap. And people give Updike grief for being obsessed with sex in his rabbit series? Yeesh, Mr Updike owes mr Mcmurtry a coke for the chapter in this book involving the heifer. Ye gods....