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Billy Boy by Shrake, Bud and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru - Billy Boy: a Novel by Shrake, Bud - AbeBooks Skip to main content. Edwin A. "Bud" Shrake, Jr. (September 6, - May 8, ) was an American journalist, sportswriter, novelist, biographer and bltadwin.ru co-wrote a series of golfing advice books with golf coach Harvey Penick, including Harvey Penick's Little Red Book, a golf guide that became the best-selling sports book in publishing history. Called a "lion of Texas letters" by the Austin. In Billy Boy, longtime novelist and screenwriter Bud Shrake takes us back to the early s, 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.

Billy Boy: A Novel by Bud Shrake and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru It's , and Billy, after the death of his mother, finds himself in Fort Worth with his father, a drunken war veteran with a gambling problem. In Billy Boy, longtime novelist and screenwriter Bud Shrake takes us back to the early s, 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.