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 new--and not always edifying--experiences. 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, ...
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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 new--and not always edifying--experiences. 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 it for future use. C.K. takes Harold with him when he run errands in town, and brings him into the mysterious black world beyond the railroad tracks. There Harold learns of C.K.'s big brother, "Big Nail" Emmet, doing time for murder, and of Big Nail's wife, Cora Lee. There is a fraying bond between the two brothers that Harold senses but cannot really fathom.
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Add this copy of Texas Summer to cart. $10.49, fair condition, Sold by Goodwill Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hillsboro, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by Arcade.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Texas Summer (Hardcover IN DUST JACKET CONDITION VERY GOOD-PUBLISHED BY ARCADE PUBLISHING CO-1991 COPYRIGHT FIRST EDITION) by Terry Southern An evocative, poignant coming-of-age novel set in rural Texas in the 1930s.... Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 174 p. Audience: General/trade. Texas Summer (Hardcover IN DUST JACKET CONDITION VERY GOOD-PUBLISHED BY ARCADE PUBLISHING CO-1991 COPYRIGHT FIRST EDITION) by Terry Southern An evocative, poignant coming-of-age novel set in rural Texas in the 1930s. Through events small and large, 13-year-old Harold Stevens grows up during a pivotal summer in the red-dirt backcountry of West Texas. With his friend C.K. Crow, the black field hand who works for Harold s father, he shoots deer and quail, fishes for catfish, mends fences, grows and learns about marijuana, and tests his emerging manhood against bullies, bulls, and the irresistible charms of his horse-riding older cousin. During a hysterical trip to a circus sideshow, Harold and a buddy sneak backstage to see "The Great Hermaphrodite" and the "funny little old Monkey Man, " whom they try to buy a beer. But danger waits on the fringe of this innocent time. When C.K. s brother, Big Nail, appears after escaping from a chain gang, an inevitable and violent confrontation between the brothers is set in motion-a confrontation that will mark the end of Harold s childhood. This inside view of Southern s roots in Alvarado, Texas, where pastoral innocence belied an undercurrent of racism and violence, brings this novel of a boy s transition to maturity vividly alive.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, fine in Near Fine dustjacket. First Edition. First Printing. Giftable. A novel of Texas in the '50's, red dirt country. Harold Stevens is 12 heading hell-bent for 13, away from the comfort of his mother to the realities of the world; Harold's older friends dare him into danger. His best friend is a 23 year old black hired hand on his father's farm.
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