From the rear cover
In this classic Depression-era Texas novel, three wayfaring comrades ask for no pity as they travel the country looking for signs from the "Higher Powers" - and for whiskey and women. As Eddie, the narrator, muses "the Higher Powers had meant us to live like wild free studhorses roaming the face of the earth and gladdening whatever hearts we run across". Finding their way to a camp under a Brazos River bridge, Eddie, Mike and Jimmy survive on windfalls they find, con, or take outright. Their ribald adventures sparkle with humorous philosophy and wry social satire. One can "scarcely find a book that is more politically incorrect than Walls Rise Up", writes Judyth Rigler in the foreword, "yet the reader . . . finds it easy to laugh at descriptions of shiftless hoboes, alcoholics, loose women, dimwitted giants, liars, thieves and the like". First published in 1939 by Doubleday Doran, this reprint includes a little known, previously unpublished chapter that Perry had intended for a future edition.
Details
- Title Walls Rise Up
- Author George Sessions Perry
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 154
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Texas Christian University Press
- Date 1994-04
- ISBN 9780875651262 / 0875651267
- Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.53 x 5.79 x 0.78 in (21.67 x 14.71 x 1.98 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Texas
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93037785
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Library Journal, 05/01/1994, Page 143
- Publishers Weekly, 03/28/1994, Page 84
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