Some can whistle. Larry McMurtry. 1990.

Danny Deck, the hero of All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers, is now a successful middle-aged Texan, middle-aged Texan writer who has made a fortune in the TV business in Los Angeles, and returned home to his quiet, expensive and eccentric way of life, keeping in touch with his girlfriends by leaving messages on their answering machines all over the world, and avoiding any contact with the harsh realities of the rest of the real world as much as he can.From this quiet existence comes an unexpected telephone call from TR, the daughter Danny has never seen, which changes his life and those of everyone around him, including TR herself. She brings into her father’s hesitant and somewhat fatalistic embrace her two children, Bo and Jesse; one lover, Muddy, who is a failed burglar; and another, Earl Dee, who is one of Larry McMurtry’s most chilling creations; as well as a mixed bag of camp followers.