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008 980220t19981998txu 000 1 eng
010 $a 98014563
020 $a0875651895 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm38519190
035 $9ANR2500CU
035 $a2187553
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dOCL$dOrLoB-B
043 $an-us-nm
050 00 $aPS3569.M516$bU53 1998
082 00 $a813/.54$221
100 1 $aSmith, C. W.$q(Charles William),$d1940-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82258755
245 10 $aUnderstanding women /$ca novel by C.W. Smith.
260 $aFort Worth, Tex. :$bTCU Press,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $a345 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aIt's 1956, and James Robert (Jimbo) Proctor's just turned sixteen when his Uncle Waylan and his new wife Vicky invite him to spend a summer toiling in the oil patch in New Mexico. Jimbo dreams that heaving heavy metal about will serve as well as a Charles Atlas course to make a man of him, but he lands smack dab in a domestic fracas that has his uncle living in his machine shop and sneaking out with Sharon, his secretary.
520 8 $aMeanwhile Jimbo's Aunt Vicky leads a protest against a fundamentalist book ban and rails against American H-bomb tests on Bikini. James sets out to solve the case of what he calls The Hardy Boy and the Mystery of the Marital Estrangement, but when he meets Sharon's cousin, Trudy, and plummets into love himself, the mystery of what brings men and women together or keeps them apart only deepens into confusion and torment.
520 8 $aAnd James has more to learn than why we love and how we earn a mate both deserved and deserving. He's coming of age in a pivotal year in an era of repression and transition.
650 0 $aYoung men$zNew Mexico$vFiction.
650 0 $aUncles$zNew Mexico$vFiction.
651 0 $aNew Mexico$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108357
655 7 $aBildungsromans.$2gsafd
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3569.M516$iU53 1998