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Subtitle: passage of an American son
By: Billy Porterfield.
Edition: 1st Southern Methodist University Press ed.
Series: Southwest life and letters
Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Dallas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
Subjects: Porterfield, Bill -- Childhood and youth.; Texas -- Social life and customs.; Texas -- Biography.
Description: Billy Porterfield's memoir begins in 1938, when his restless father decided to leave the family farm in Little Egypt, Oklahoma, to become an oil field driller. During the next seventeen years, the Porterfields - the author, his parents, and his younger brother and sister - moved twenty-two times, chasing the flow of oil in Texas in their sleek Terraplane Hudson.

Alternately rambunctious and refined, mythic and earthy, Porterfield's family and circle of eccentrics are brought to life with rich color and texture.