Rhino Ranch

Name: Rhino Ranch
Rating: 4.4 (1130 reviews)

by Larry McMurtry Book 7 in the Thalia, Texas and Duane Moore series.

First published 2009

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After a serious heart attack, Duane Moore returns to a Thalia that has continued changing without him. His new neighbour, the billionaire K. K. Slater, has converted former ranchland into a reserve for endangered black rhinoceroses.

The improbable preserve gives Duane another perspective on survival, extinction and the uses of wealth. As friends disappear and old relationships lose their familiar shape, he considers whether companionship and purpose remain possible at the end of the long Thalia sequence.

The rhinoceros preserve gives McMurtry a final way to consider the long transformation of Texas ranch country. Land once organised around cattle, oil and family property is now shaped by conservation money and global concerns about extinction. Duane's response to that change mirrors his recognition that survival does not preserve the world as it was; people and landscapes continue changing around those who remain.