The Bone Pickers

The Bone Pickers
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Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Total Pages : 426
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ISBN-10 : 0896724794
ISBN-13 : 9780896724792
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Bone Pickers by : Al Dewlen

Download or read book The Bone Pickers written by Al Dewlen and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the flamboyant background of the "Golden Spread," the oil-rich Panhandle of the late 1950s, Al Dewlen has poised a full-scale and truly original novel of one Texas family--the Mungers of Amarillo. The six Munger siblings are the heirs of hard-drinking, hardscrabble farmer Cecil Munger, who in one generation brought his family from Dust Bowl poverty to unfathomable wealth. Wayward humor, warmth and passion, vigorous and imaginative revelation silhouette their individual rebelliousness against the debilitating restrictions of the family empire.


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