Billy Boy
Bud Shrake(Author)
Simon & Schuster Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 21. October 2002
Book
Other book format
240 pages
978-0-7432-2480-2 (ISBN)
Description
Not since Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show has a novelist captured the poignant contradictions of young manhood in the American West the way Bud Shrake does in Billy Boy. There are tough times ahead for sixteen-year-old Billy. He's just come to Fort Worth with his father, Troy, after the death of his mother back in Albuquerque. Troy's drinking and gambling will leave them all but penniless, and he'll soon move on and abandon Billy in this strange town to fend for himself. With only a vague idea of how he's going to live, Billy heads over to Colonial Country Club, where he hopes he can get work as a caddie and where he just might see his hero, Ben Hogan. What he finds there, under the watchful eye of his guardian spirit, teaches him unforgettable lessons about golf, life, love and honor. Shrake skillfully weaves historical figures and his richly drawn characters into the fabric of the town and the tenor of the time. Billy must face down his fears and doubts, and he does so in a climactic confrontation that combines the yearnings of youth with the redemption of the spirit.
Billy Boy is an unforgettable novel of coming of age in a time and a place filled with mythic echoes and frontier dreams.
Billy Boy is an unforgettable novel of coming of age in a time and a place filled with mythic echoes and frontier dreams.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7432-2480-2 (9780743224802)
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03/2002
1st Edition
Simon + Schuster LLC
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Person
Bud Shrake is the coauthor of Harvey Penick's Little Red Book and the author of many novels and screenplays.