Norwood
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- Synopsis
- Norwood is a nice young ex-Marine from Ralph, Texas. He lives with his sister Vernell alongside U.S. Highway 82 in a tin-roof house that has carburetors and things in the yard. He works at the Nipper service station, thinks about going to Shreveport to get on a hillbilly music show, and tries to get in touch with an old Marine buddy, now in New York, who owes him $70. After Vernell marries and brings home Bill Bird-who lives off a VA pension and just bumps around the house in an old corduroy bathrobe-Norwood gets a bit put out. When he runs into Grady Fring the Kredit King, he's glad to take up Grady's offer to deliver a car to New York. A lot of things happen on the way to New York. Then, on the way back- in a Trailways bus-Norwood collects a wife named Rita Lee ("I was afraid of this," she said. "I was afraid the minute I sat down here you would think I was looking for love on a bus"), the second shortest midget in show business ("I lied to you a minute ago. I am not actually the world's smallest perfect man. Not any more. I do have reason to believe I am the world's smallest perfect fat man"), and a chicken who does tricks (Joann The Wonder Hen, The College Educated Chicken). What matters most in this special first novel is the cool, sympathetic, funny tone of voice-from that rural America where Country and Western music is the style and everybody talks to everybody else.
- Copyright:
- 1966
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 187 Pages
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 10/09/07
- Copyrighted By:
- Charles Portis
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Brian Miller
- Proofread By:
- jill o'connell
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.