SOURCE: "Books of the Times: Deconstructionist Turns to Building," in New York Times, August 26, 1994.
In the following review of Pretty Boy Floyd, Kakutani argues that McMurtry and Diana Ossana embellish the myth of the character, but fail to make readers care about his fate.
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