By Charles Williams
Raised on the racetrack, a boy involves continue to exist a Texas farm.
Billy doesn’t know the way to learn a publication, yet provide him a racing shape and he can let you know every little thing a few pony that you’d ever need to know. He and his father live to tell the tale the line, touring from Aqueduct to Hialeah and again back, until eventually an overzealous Welfare girl calls for they settle someplace extra healthy than the music. no longer realizing at any place healthy, Billy’s father takes him to Texas as a substitute, to survive his brother Sagamore’s farm.
There Billy meets bootleggers, gangsters, and the gorgeous omit Choo-Choo Caroline, a Chicago stripper who's donning not anything yet a tiny, diamond-encrusted G-string while she disappears. Uncle Sagamore, an enterprising brute, sees this as an opportunity for revenue. For a boy with playing in his veins, there should be quite a bit to learn.
Charles Williams (1909-1975) used to be one of many preeminent authors of yank crime fiction. Born in Texas, he dropped out of college in 10th grade to enlist within the US service provider Marine, serving ten years sooner than leaving to paintings within the electronics undefined. on the finish of global warfare II, Williams all started writing fiction in San Francisco, the place the good fortune of the “backwoods noir” Hill lady (1951) allowed him to give up his activity and write complete time for the remainder of his life.
Williams’ fresh and slightly informal narrative sort distinguishes his novels, which variety from hard-boiled noir to suspense thrillers, set within the sea and the Deep South. even supposing released by means of pulp homes, his paintings received nice severe acclaim, with Hell Hath No Fury (1953) changing into the 1st paperback unique to be reviewed by means of mythical big apple occasions critic Anthony Boucher. lots of his novels have been tailored to the monitor, together with useless Calm (1963) and Don’t simply Stand There! (1966), for which Williams wrote the screenplay. He died in 1975.
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His mother doesn’t seem to hear it for the first mile or so, but it must have had a cumulative effect on her nerves because when we were almost there, she reached down and pinched his leg so hard that he gasped and tried to holler, but he couldn’t make another sound and didn’t for the rest of the trip. Once he shut up, the girl started muttering to herself like we weren’t even there. “Muthafucka just lying. He know he my baby daddy. Look at his damn face. Look just like him. Nigga know I ain’t been fuckin’ nobody but him since his ass got here and he can’t give me five dollars a week?
She was wearing a pale blue polyester pantsuit and white sandals with stockings. Her hair, which was pressed and hot-curled within an inch of its life, was elaborately styled and piled like Mahalia Jackson’s when she sang her solo at the end of Imitation of Life. Hardly anybody asks for that kind of hard press anymore. Sister seems to have missed the moment when we decided it was okay for the hair to move. A thin white scarf was loosely tied under her chin to protect this well-sprayed helmet of hair from even the possibility of a breeze.
I wasn’t expecting to see anything like that up here,” I said. He looked at me and smiled. ” I remembered how fast he had moved back there. The kid never saw it coming. ” “Army,” he said. “He’ll be all right as soon as he catches his breath. ” 20 what looks like crazy on an ordinary day . . • “An important distinction,” I said, realizing my hands were shaking. I kept seeing that girl’s head flopping around when the guy was slapping her. “I know that kid,” Eddie said. I was surprised. ” He nodded.