![]() ![]() As played by Shirley MacClaine, Aurora is irrational and prudish, a silly, forgettable, negligible woman. You’d never know any of this if you’ve only seen the 1983 movie. ![]() She’s worshipped and coveted by men who will never understand her. In her most private times, she loses hope. She’s also aging and grappling with her own unwieldy emotions. If she sounds like a monster-well, she is. She’s alternately gentle and brutal with them you’ve seen a self-satisfied cat toy with its hapless prey, haven’t you? She rejects their advances, corrects their grammar and pounces on inept literary allusions. A small horde of suitors-an opera singer, a four-star general, a playboy, an oil millionaire, a bank vice-president-hover around her, dazzled by her beauty, spirit and wit. Approaching 50, Aurora is imperious, domineering, charming, indomitable. But Aurora Greenway is one of the greatest characters to get lost between the page and the big screen.Īccording to the back of my yellowed paperback, “Aurora Greenway is the kind of woman who makes the whole world orbit around her.” That sums it up pretty well. Terms of Endearment doesn’t quite qualify as a “lost book” since it’s written by the renowned McMurtry. ![]() It’s one of my favorite Larry McMurtry novels, published in 1975. Hell yes it’s a book, I said, and told her she should read it immediately. “ Terms of Endearment is a book?” a well-read friend asked recently. ![]()
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