THE PULL.

Nelson, Bobby Jack.

ISBN 10: 031265572X / ISBN 13: 9780312655723

Published by ST. MARTIN'S. NY 1986, 1986

About this Item

First edition. SIGNED by Bobby Jack Nelson on front end-paper. Near ine in near fine dust jacket. (Trace of rubbing & short edge tears in jacket. ) Texas author's THIRD book. Seller Inventory # 5135

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE PULL.

Publisher: ST. MARTIN'S. NY 1986

Publication Date: 1986

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition; First Printing.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

During the storm that opens Nelson's third novel, 13-year-old Bud is knocked out by a lightning bolt. He wakes to find his face badly singed and his beloved mule team gone. For ten years Bud and his truculent father Sailor have been living in the woods cutting timber. Now they go to town to buy new mules, and town is where Bud completes his coming of age. As his face heals, he falls in love, has his first sexual experience, and observes his father with increasingly independent eyes. In a Faulknerian finish, Bud and Sailor, with the recovered mules, triumph in a hard-won wagon-pulling contest, leaving Bud aware of his independence from Sailor and also his debts to him. This brutal, unsentimental story is told with a fierce and graceful honesty. Nelson's other books are The Last Station and Brothers.
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