Texas Summer: A Novel

174, [4] pp. A novel by the author credited by Tom Wolfe as the inventor of New Journalism, and best known for his novels Candy and The Magic Christian, and for his contributions to films such as Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider. "In Texas during the 1950s, twelve-year-old Harold Stevens spends his summer catfishing and hunting with his closest friend C.K., a twenty-three-year-old Black man who introduces Harold to Old Nail--an ex-con involved in deadly rituals."