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NorwoodCharles Portis

Norwood

1966191 pages
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Out of the American Neon Desert of Roller Dromes, chili parlors, The Grand Ole Opry, and girls who want "to live in a trailer and play records all night" comes ex-marine and troubadour Norwood Pratt. Sent on a mission to New York by Grady Fring, the Kredit King, Norwood has visions of "speeding across the country in a late model car, seeing all the sights." Instead, he gets involved in a wild journey that takes him in and out of stolen cars, freight trains, and buses. By the time he returns home to Ralph, Texas, Norwood has met his true love, Rita Lee, on a Trailways bus; befriended Edmund B.…

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10 editions
  • Audiobook · English · 2013
    Blackstone Audio Inc · 9781470890254
  • Paperback · English · 2011
    Duckworth & Co · 272 pages · 9780715640999
  • Audiobook · English · 2001
    Blackstone Audiobooks · 9780786120123
  • Audiobook · English · 2001
    Blackstone Audiobooks · 9780786197217
  • Hardcover · English · 1994
    Buccaneer Books · 9781568494036
  • Hardcover · English · 1967
    Johnathan Cape · 192 pages · 9780224611763
FictionYoung menFiction, generalTravelers