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Norwood

Norwood

Portis, Charles

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HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0879517034
ISBN13: 9780879517038
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: Aug 1 1999
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Norwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author Charles Portis's first novel, displayed right out of the gate the wit, style, and singular voice that made him one of our great American writers.

A great American deadpan comedy. . . . Norwood, like a belt of whiskey, cleared my sinuses right up. --Slate

Out of the 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.

By the time he returns home to Ralph, Texas, Norwood has met his true love, Rita Lee, on a Trailway bus; befriended Edmund B. Ratner, the self-described world's smallest perfect man; and helped Joann, the chicken with a college education, realize her true potential in life.

As with all of Portis's fiction, the tone is cool, sympathetic, funny, and undeniably American.

Flawless . . . Norwood is a road novel as indispensable as On the Road itself. --Ed Park, Believer

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