Texas Summer: A Novel

By Terry Southern

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559701501
• ISBN13: 9781559701501
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Arcade Pub
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Southern would have been amused by the word re"hash".

Southern's last novel, completed in 1992, was the result of an on-again, off-again thirty-year effort to write a real exploration of his childhood in rural Texas. Although it borrows settings and scenes from stories originally completed in the 50s, the novel delves much further into the life of the young Texan Harold and his move into adolescence. A strange coming-of-age novel it is indeed, since Harold's introductions to the world of adult life are not through baseball, fishing, or books, but through marijuana, knife fights, and panty-peeping; the book is very much Southern's version of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." A poignant and elegantly comic memoir of youth.