The Men in My Life: And Other More or Less True Recollections of Kinship (A Graywolf Discovery) - Softcover

Houston, James D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555972063 ISBN 13: 9781555972066

Publisher: Graywolf Pr, 1994

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About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

In 12 loosely connected chapters, a San Franciscoborn novelist (The Californians recalls men who strongly affected his life: his Uncle Jay from Texas, who hoped that Houston would become an All-American football player at Abilene Christian College; his father Dudley, a would-be guitarist who couldn't stand his son's musical attempts; his "dangerous" Uncle Anderson, whose fighting cock destroyed Dudley's laying hens. Houston also offers memories of his own experiences, including a glimpse of Count Basie in decline, an encounter with a German truck driver who picked him up when he was hitchhiking in Sweden and his delivery of a nuclear-bomb cartridge to a fighter plane during a 1958 crisis that might have led to war. The memoir's most impressive chapter also is its most repulsive: an account of a hazing Houston endured upon joining a college fraternity.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Graywolf Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1555972063
• ISBN 13: 9781555972066
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176