The Kid (Paperback)

Another case of the over-directed author attempting to disguise his mythic literary pretensions and weighty social-moral concerns by placing his very '50's liberal aphorisms ("The soldiers finally won and the Injuns lost, but they was both losers if you ask me") within the run-on sentences of the self-consciously unself-conscious narrator. This phony, attempted naturalism contrasts badly with the symbolic tale of the blond boy (actually woman - actually Billy Budd) and the deaf-mute "African" with miraculous powers (detecting gold, water, and cheating at cards) whose innocence destroys both themselves and the two-bit town they wander into on their search for the Universal Promise (i.e., American Dream), in this case sheepherding. Important themes like race, greed, sex (the narrator was emasculated by the Indians), and the nature of justice appear with depressing regularity in the discourses of the townspeople, types rather than individuals, whom the author blithely patronizes nearly as much as his readers. (Kirkus Reviews)

Winky thought he'd seen everything in Wyoming Territory: rustlers, hangings, shoot-outs, cattle standing frozen stiff in the snow. Then into town one lazy day rode a long-haired kid and a colossal African mute.

They were met in the saloon by Fiddler Jones, whose hair and temper flared like a wasps' nest. Fiddler's yellow eyes fell instantly in love with the kid's pouch of gold dust. That pouch was worth killing for.

Fiddler was no stranger to trouble, but the trouble he found in the kid and the mute took everyone by surprise. It just kept coming, like nothing Winky had ever seen before.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 1982
First published:	October 1982
Authors:	John Seelye
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade / Trade
Pages:	119
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-9131-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-8032-9131-0
Barcode:	9780803291317

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