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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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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...
Published on August 29, 1996
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Get Red Dirt Marijuana instead
This book is a rehash of the short stories published in "Red Dirt Marijuana and other tastes", which are more consise, better focused, and include some Reporting Mr. Southern did placing him a few years ahead of Hunter Thompson in the Gonzo Sweepstakes.
Published on August 8, 1995
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Southern would have been amused by the word re"hash".,
By A Customer
This review is from: Texas Summer (Paperback)
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.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Get Red Dirt Marijuana instead,
By A Customer
This review is from: Texas Summer (Paperback)
This book is a rehash of the short stories published in "Red Dirt Marijuana and other tastes", which are more consise, better focused, and include some Reporting Mr. Southern did placing him a few years ahead of Hunter Thompson in the Gonzo Sweepstakes.
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Texas Summer by Terry Southern (Hardcover - Jan. 1992)
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