There Is A Generation

ISBN-13: 9781500385279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 244 str.

Wh Buzzard

Opis

For readers who laughed at Mark Twain's and Joseph Heller's portraits of two pivotal generations comes a satire of a third pivotal generation in the 1950's. WWII heroes who saved us from The Great Depression and conquest by Nazi Germany and Japan produced offspring who accomplished rock'n'roll, souped-up hot rods, the bop, and evolved into the 1960's rebels who would change American values forever. In 1950's West Texas, Tim and Hect, two teenage mischief-makers, find their world turned upside down when their game turns into a ghastly murder, or so they believe. In an attempt to set fire to a wasp nest in an abandoned auto junkyard the boys fill a bottle up with fuel from a wrecked truck and hurl a Molotov cocktail. Instead of the wasp nest, they hit the tiny shack offices, which erupt in a fireball. Both boys gape in horror as a blazing figure fills a window. Interrupted by the sound of sirens racing from town, and fearing their prank will land them a seat on "Sparky," Huntsville's infamous Death Row electric chair, Tim and Hect believe they have no choice but to be fugitives from the law. Armed only with a dogged determination and a forehead-slapping sense of naivete, the boys flee into the harsh West Texas desert. Because of their spoiled lifestyles, the two couldn't be less prepared to face hunger, thirst, sleeping on a bed of mesquite thorns, life on the road, homelessness, and eventually a hidden world of poverty and slums, plus the mean streets of Juarez, Mexico.

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