Books
December, 1988
These days, fiction readers demand deflation. They want to go behind the magician, expose the illusions, stomp on clay feet and get right to the heart of the matter. Three new novels--Anne Rice's The Queen of the Damned (Knopf), William Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive (Bantam) and Larry McMurtry's Anything for Billy (Simon & Schuster)--plunge into hoary literary territory to emerge fresh and (dare I say it?) relevant.McMurtry is undoubtedly the most aggressively intellectual writer to mine the cowb...
