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Title: Texas Summer by Terry Southern ISBN: 1-55970-215-X Publisher: General Pub. Date: 05 August, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Southern would have been amused by the word re"hash".
Comment: 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.

Rating: 3
Summary: Get Red Dirt Marijuana instead
Comment: 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.