School's out in Big River, Iowa, and Tex Donleavy, a kid who keeps his nose in the books and his deformed right hand deep in his pocket, is looking forward to a blissful summer in the company of Linda Volesky, the vivacious beauty who happens to be his father's girlfriend. Instead, Tex gets dumpe...
He put his fingers to an itch on his chest and was confused by the buttons on his T-shirt until he looked down and saw the denim jacket. He stood before the bowl, then bent over the basin and splashed the cold water on his face and ran it through his hair and scooped it in...