Ebook {Epub PDF} Billy Boy: A Novel by Edwin Shrake

In Billy Boy, longtime novelist and screenwriter Bud Shrake takes us back to the early s, in a story thick with the Texas dust. Hardscrabble Billy, tough as he thinks he is and smarter than he knows, makes a place for himself behind the walls of privilege at Colonial. In Billy Boy, longtime novelist and screenwriter Bud Shrake takes us back to the early s, in a story thick with the Texas dust. Hardscrabble Billy, tough as he thinks he is and smarter than he knows, makes a place for himself behind the walls of privilege at Colonial.4/5. 13 rows · Clear rating. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. But Not for Love.

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Billy Boy A Novel 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. Shrake returned to the Comanche, the subject of his first novel, in The Borderland: A Novel of Texas (). His Billy Boy is a coming-of-age story set in Fort Worth that features John L. Bredemus as a guardian angel, golf champ Ben Hogan, and several rounds at Colonial Country Club. Title: Billy Boy: A Novel; Author: Bud Shrake Edwin Shrake; ISBN: ; Page: ; Format: Paperback; 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.