Snake

By Lou Harris

Historians and faculty members agree, Nora "Snake" Novotny is a once in a generation event. Nora, an incoming junior at West High, is a luscious mixture of beauty, sex and allure, untouchable and unapproachable. A date with Snake would raise any boy's profile, cholesterol and self-esteem. Louis Bloom, also entering West High, is a transfer student from an all boys school. He is insecure around girls and uneducated in their ways. Snake needs a favor. Will Louis be chosen to grant it? Just after graduation in 1950, the United States government invites Louis to partake in the Korean War. His wise beyond her years sister, Anna the Banana, advises him to "make yourself essential." He does, by chance, when the post commander's awkward daughter chooses to befriend him. A Mexican spitfire also eases his military commitment. With the help of the G.I.Bill, Louis attends a university where he becomes the center of a morality play, a tug or war between good (Susan B. Anderson) and evil (Rosemary Thyme). By a quirk of fate, his life evolves into the Whore of Dinkeytown, then a private investigator (some say an investigator of privates) and then Uncle Louie to his sister's child. But then there was Snake, there was always Snake.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1537301837
• ISBN13: 9781537301839
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"