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Texas Summer: A Novel
Terry Southern
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Description for Texas Summer: A Novel
Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 171.
Harold Stevens is twelve years old, heading hell-bent for thirteen, away from the comfort of his mother's care to the realities of the world beyond. Grandfather would gladly initiate him into the world's ways, but his lessons are more prattle than practical. Harold's older friends dare him into danger and expose him to newand not always edifyingexperiences. But his real mentor is C.K., the twenty-three-year-old black hired hand on his father's farm.
Together they fish for the legendary catfish down at the local pond, dare bulls, pick gage from among the wild cactus, and carefully dry it and store ... Read more
Harold Stevens is twelve years old, heading hell-bent for thirteen, away from the comfort of his mother's care to the realities of the world beyond. Grandfather would gladly initiate him into the world's ways, but his lessons are more prattle than practical. Harold's older friends dare him into danger and expose him to newand not always edifyingexperiences. But his real mentor is C.K., the twenty-three-year-old black hired hand on his father's farm.
Together they fish for the legendary catfish down at the local pond, dare bulls, pick gage from among the wild cactus, and carefully dry it and store ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
170g
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781628724332
SKU
V9781628724332
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Texas Summer: A Novel
"Terry Southern was a fine writer, and Texas Summer a shows him at his most acute."Larry McMurtry "This coming-of-age valentine to the 50s Texas landscape has an understated, flat-spoken charm."Kirkus Reviews Southern's sensitive coming-of-age novel faithfully evokes Texas red-dirt country in the 1950s.”Publishers Weekly "Terry Southern was a fine writer, and Texas Summer a shows him at his ... Read more