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It's 1956, and James Robert (Jimbo) Proctor has just turned sixteen
when his Uncle Waylan and his new wife Vicky invite Jimbo to spend
a summer toiling in the New Mexico oil patch. Jimbo dreams that
heaving heavy metal about will serve as well as a Charles Atlas
course to make a man of him, but he lands smack dab in a domestic
fracas that has his uncle living in his machine shop and sneaking
out with Sharon, his secretary. Meanwhile Jimbo's Aunt Vicky leads
a protest against a fundamentalist book ban and rails against
American H-bomb tests on Bikini. James sets out to solve the case
of what he calls The Hardy Boy and the Mystery of the Marital
Estrangement, but when he meets Sharon's cousin, Trudy, and
plummets into love himself, the mystery of what brings men and
women together or keeps them apart only deepens into confusion and
torment. And James has more to learn than why we love and how we
earn a mate both deserved and deserving. He's coming of age in a
pivotal year in an era of repression and transition: the Brown
decision, hardly two years old, meets die-hard resistance among
segregationists; Rosa Parks has just refused to take a back seat;
playwright Arthur Miller marries Marilyn Monroe and gets a contempt
citation from the House Un-American Activities Committee; Adlai
Stevenson and Estes Kefauver lose in a landslide to Ike and Dick
Nixon; Ed Sullivan claims he'll never let "Elvis the Pelvis" on his
TV show; and a southern senator warns Americans against the
insidious influence of "foreign" films. In Jimbo's hometown of
Dallas, right-wing complaints of "Red" artists succeed in censoring
a traveling art show sponsored by the United States Information
Agency; civil defense drills sweep the nation to prepare Americans
for nuclear war; sponsor General Electric withdraws an episode of
the wildly popular drama "Medic" because it reveals too much about
a Caesarean section; and abortions are so forbidden even
descriptions of them are stricken from books. How such
things--things he might've thought remote and irrelevant--come to
bear heavily on his green life is the thrust of his summer's
education, and he leaves New Mexico on the cusp not so much of
manhood but of adult responsibility.
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Imprint: |
Texas Christian University Press,U.S.
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 1998 |
First published: |
August 1998 |
Authors: |
C.W. Smith
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Dimensions: |
248 x 165 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
345 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-87565-189-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-87565-189-5 |
Barcode: |
9780875651897 |
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