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Author : Bud Shrake
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2002-03-21
Billy Boy written by Bud Shrake and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-21 with Fiction categories.
Not since Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show has a novelist captured the poignant contradictions of young manhood in the American West the way Bud Shrake does in Billy Boy. And no novel has ever combined history, spirituality and golf into so potent a triumph of the human spirit. There are tough times ahead for sixteen-year-old Billy. He's just come to Fort Worth with his father, Troy, after the death of his mother back in Albuquerque. Troy's drinking and gambling will leave them all but penniless, and he'll soon move on and abandon Billy in this strange town to fend for himself. With only a vague idea of how he's going to live, Billy heads over to Colonial Country Club, where he hopes he can get work as a caddie and where he just might see his hero, Ben Hogan. What he finds there, under the watchful eye of his guardian spirit, teaches him unforgettable lessons about golf, life, love and honor. In Billy Boy, longtime novelist and screenwriter Bud Shrake takes us back to the early 1950s, in a story thick with the Texas dust. Hardscrabble Billy, tough as he thinks he is and smarter than he knows, makes a place for himself behind the walls of privilege at Colonial. He first draws the approval, then the ire, of the club's most eccentric millionaire member, while his looks and manner draw the attention of the millionaire's beautiful granddaughter -- to the displeasure of her boyfriend, the club champion. Billy survives a fierce initiation and a dreadful scene with his drunken father -- but most important, he comes in contact with two of the greatest figures in the history of golf in Texas, Ben Hogan and John Bredemus, each of whom takes Billy under his wing for different reasons and with different results. Shrake skillfully weaves these historical figures and his richly drawn characters into the fabric of the town and the tenor of the time. Billy must face down his fears and doubts, and he does so in a climactic confrontation that combines the yearnings of youth with the redemption of the spirit. Billy Boy is an unforgettable novel of coming of age in a time and a place filled with mythic echoes and frontier dreams.
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Billy Boy written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Artists' books categories.
Lyrics to the traditional folk song Billy Boy.
Billy Boy
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Author : William May
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2011-03-22
Billy Boy written by William May and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Billy Boy" is a humorous story about an altar boy growing up in a small New England town and the many conflicts he encounters along the way. When the mysteries of faith, sex, and the world around him were rationalized with a young mind and an imagination that ran wild within his head. When trying to stay one step ahead of his parents, teachers, and the law, he often found himself two steps behind. Although this mostly true tale takes place during the rock and roll era, it could have happened during any time period. This is a must read if you like to laugh, especially at adolescence.
Billy S Boy
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Author : Melanie Joyce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Billy S Boy written by Melanie Joyce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with categories.
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Author : Thomas J. Hubschman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
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Author : Thomas J. Hubschman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-09
Billy Boy written by Thomas J. Hubschman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09 with Fiction categories.
A psychological crime novel set in New York City.
The Blues Dream Of Billy Boy Arnold
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Author : Billy Boy Arnold
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2021-11-19
The Blues Dream Of Billy Boy Arnold written by Billy Boy Arnold and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-19 with History categories.
The frank, funny, and unforgettable autobiography of a living legend of Chicago blues. Simply put, Billy Boy Arnold is one of the last men standing from the Chicago blues scene’s raucous heyday. What’s more, unlike most artists in this electrifying melting pot, who were Southern transplants, Arnold—a harmonica master who shared stages with Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, and Howlin’ Wolf, plus a singer and hitmaker in his own right who first recorded the standards “I Wish You Would” and “I Ain’t Got You”—was born right here and has lived nowhere else. This makes his perspective on Chicago blues, its players, and its locales all the rarer and all the more valuable. Arnold has witnessed musical generations come and go, from the decline of prewar country blues to the birth of the electric blues and the worldwide spread of rock and roll. Working here in collaboration with writer and fellow musician Kim Field, he gets it all down. The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold is a remarkably clear-eyed testament to more than eighty years of musical love and creation, from Arnold’s adolescent quest to locate the legendary Sonny Boy Williamson, the story of how he named Bo Diddley Bo Diddley, and the ups and downs of his seven-decade recording career. Arnold’s tale—candidly told with humor, insight, and grit—is one that no fan of modern American music can afford to miss.
The Billy Boy
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Author : Chris Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-09-02
The Billy Boy written by Chris Anderson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A cult figure among loyalists, despised and feared by nationalists, Billy 'King Rat' Wright is reputed to have been involved in a number of sectarian murders before he himself was shot dead by republican gunmen inside the Maze Prison in 1997. Wright became involved with loyalist paramilitaries at the age of 16, and in the early 1990s he emerged as the UVF commander in the Mid-Ulster area. The Billy Boy documents Wright's role in the Drumcree dispute of 1995-96 and his split from the UVF, recounting how he ignored both a death threat and an order to leave Northern Ireland, only to remain in Portadown and form the Loyalist Volunteer Force. It covers Wright's trial and subsequent imprisonment for a crime it has been claimed was set up by the State; recounts the circumstances of his killing inside a top-security prison; and investigates the allegations of State collusion in Wright's death. Terrifically gripping and often disturbing, The Billy Boy is an exhaustive account of a notorious figure of the Troubles, whose life and death were surrounded by controversy and political debate.
The Blues Dream Of Billy Boy Arnold
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Author : Billy Boy Arnold
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2021-11-19
The Blues Dream Of Billy Boy Arnold written by Billy Boy Arnold and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Billy Boy Arnold, born in 1935, is one of the few native Chicagoans who both cultivated a career in the blues and stayed in Chicago. His perspective on Chicago's music, people, and places is rare and valuable. Arnold has worked with generations of musicians-from Tampa Red and Howlin' Wolf and to Muddy Waters and Paul Butterfield-on countless recordings, witnessing the decline of country blues, the dawn of electric blues, the onset of blues-inspired rock, and more. Here, with writer Kim Field, he gets it all down on paper-including the story of how he named Bo Diddley Bo Diddley"--
Billy Boy
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Author : Edward Little White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1847
Billy Boy written by Edward Little White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1847 with Ballads, English categories.