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Land of the Permanent Wave
An Edwin "Bud" Shrake Reader
Av Bud Shrake, Steven L. Davis
Häftad, 2008
416 kr
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Edwin "Bud" Shrake is one of the most intriguing literary talents to emerge from Texas. He has written vividly in fiction and nonfiction about everything from the early days of the Texas Republic to the making of the atomic bomb. His real gift has been to capture the Texas Zeitgeist. Legendary …
Billy Boy
A Novel
Av Bud Shrake
Häftad, 2002
204 kr
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There are tough times ahead for sixteen-year-old Billy. After his mother dies, he goes to Fort Worth with his father, whose drinking and gambling leave them all but penniless. Desperate to make a life for himself, Billy heads over to Colonial Country Club, where he hopes to get work as a caddie. He …
Billy Boy
A Novel
Av Bud Shrake
E-bok, 2002
173 kr
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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. And no novel has ever combined history, spirituality and golf into so potent a triumph of the human spirit. There are …
Wisdom of Harvey Penick
E-bok, 2011
209 kr
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When Ben Crenshaw sank his putt at the seventy-second hole for a one-shot victory in the 1995 Masters, he bent over, buried his face in his fingers for a moment, then wept in the arms of his caddie. This was Ben''s way of telling the world that what he had just done was his own memorial to his …
Limo
Häftad, 2013
283 kr
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Decades before it saturated the airwaves, Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake actually invented reality TV--and skewered it into a comic novel that was way ahead of its time. Frank Mallory is a big gun at one of the four major networks. Cruising around Manhattan in his ""Silver Goblet,"" a Rolls Royce limo, …
