With an introduction by John Nichols
This third collection of true stories from award-winning journalist and novelist Bryan Woolley includes the deeply moving title story "Generations," originally published in Redbook magazine, as well as feature stories and personality profiles from the Dallas Morning News. In this volume of twenty-five pieces, Woolley explores Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco; recalls the lost golden age of Mineral Wells, Texas; returns to the site of a mysterious 1947 crash, believed to be a UFO, in Roswell, New Mexico; and attends a "bulldogging" school in Madisonville, Texas.
He meets such people as Kinky Friedman, musician and mystery writer; talks to the residents of Alpine, Texas, about their famous newcomer, Robert James Waller, author of "The Bridges of Madison County"; and mourns the retirement of cartoonist Gary Larson.
"Generations and Other True Stories" is vintage Woolley; warm, funny, evocative and wise. This is a welcome addition to "The Edge of the West and Other Texas Stories" and "The Bride Wore Crimson and Other Stories."
ISBN 0-87404-235-6, cloth, $25.00
6x9, 295 pg.
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