On the other side of the house somebody with a big brush and a can of Sherwin-Williams flat white had painted ACTS 2:38.'

6-12 ARKANSAS LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION LITTLE ROCK. There had been a colorful poster on the side of the house that said ROYAL AMERICAN SHOWS OCT. “Once near Stamps, they lived in a house between a Tasee-Freez stand and a cinder-block holiness church. On One Of The Houses Where Norwood Grew Up You have to love those Remleys, dirt poor husband and wife with a baby, steeling the Red River Texas version of the basic human necessities of food, clothing and shelter: a TV, shotgun and towels.

“Sometime during the night the Remleys decampted, taking with them a television set and a 16-gauge Ithaca Featherweight and two towels.” On The Visitors Norwood Invites To Stay At His House For A Couple Of Days Since so much of the color and texture of reading Charles Portis is in his homespun, down-to-Texas-earth language, by way sampling Daddy’s literary cookin’, here are a few direct quotes from the beginning of the book along with my comments: This one penned by Sir Charles is a real doozy. For me, when it comes to road novels the spice is in what prompts hitting the road in the first place and all the encounters on the trip. Part of the American Vintage Contemporaries series published back in the 1980s, this road novel by Charles Portis features 23-year old guitar pluckin’ ex-marine Norwood Pratt who lives (if you call this living) way down in the grit of rural East Texas. Such a darn good writer who created eccentric characters and comic plots. Charles Portis, born in 1933 in the state of Arkansas, one-time Marine sergeant, is an American author best known for his classic Western novel True Grit.

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