Walls Rise UpTCU Press, 1994 - 154 páginas In this classic Depression-era Texas novel, three wayfaring comrades ask for no pity as they travel the country looking for signs from the Higher Powers - and for whiskey and women. As Eddie, the narrator, muses the Higher Powers had meant us to live like wild free studhorses roaming the face of the earth and gladdening whatever hearts we run across. Finding their way to a camp under a Brazos River bridge, Eddie, Mike and Jimmy survive on windfalls they find, con, or take outright. Their ribald adventures sparkle with humorous philosophy and wry social satire. One can scarcely find a book that is more politically incorrect than Walls Rise Up, writes Judyth Rigler in the foreword, yet the reader . . . finds it easy to laugh at descriptions of shiftless hoboes, alcoholics, loose women, dimwitted giants, liars, thieves and the like. First published in 1939 by Doubleday Doran, this reprint includes a little known, previously unpublished chapter that Perry had intended for a future edition. |
Contenido
Sección 1 | 1 |
Sección 2 | 17 |
Sección 3 | 29 |
Sección 4 | 41 |
Sección 5 | 51 |
Sección 6 | 59 |
Sección 7 | 69 |
Sección 8 | 83 |
Sección 10 | 101 |
Sección 11 | 117 |
Sección 12 | 125 |
Sección 13 | 141 |
Sección 14 | 148 |
Sección 15 | 149 |
Sección 16 | |
Sección 9 | 91 |
Términos y frases comunes
ain't Amos Anyway auld lang syne back to camp bait baloney beer better bottle boys Brazos Brazos River bread bridge britches bucket catch catfish caught Conchita constable Daisy damned dewberries dollars Doubleday Doran drink drunk Eddie everything Fanny feet Finally Mike folks Frank Frank's wife gave George Sessions gone grinned guess Hackberry head heard heart hell Higher Powers Jimmy says Jimmy's Johnny jumped knew laughed Lola looked mighty Mike says Mike's minute never Newt Newt's nice night okra old Henderson Oof's Perry Perry's Pete pick poor pretty pulled quart river sand bar sent Oof sirup sitting skiff sort spring started talk tell Texas Christian University there's thing thought told took trotline turkey woman turned turtle W. M. Thackeray walked Walls Rise Weenie Island What's whisky wonderful