There Is A Generation (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Wh Buzzard | knygos.lt

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"A laugh out-loud romp" was an editor's comments about THERE IS A GENERATION by WH Buzzard, adding "by a master storyteller."In 1950's West Texas best friends Tim and Hect happen upon an abandoned auto junkyard and rabbit hunting loses its entertaining appeal for a game of war with their .22 rifles. However, the fun abruptly ends as their boyish prank goes seriously awry. They set fire to an empty shack which turns out to be the home of a hapless hobo, or so they believe.Hect has the idea to set fire to the shanty. Tim readily agrees, although he thinks the target is a wasp nest in a mesquite bush. Hect fills a bottle with fuel from a wrecked truck and hurls the Molotov cocktail at the shed. The sun-cooked wood bursts into a fireball. Shocked at his friend's aim, Tim gapes as a blazing figure peers out a fiery window. He and the human torch gaze at one another until sirens from town intervene. The boys, fearing their next seat will be on "Sparky," the nickname for the electric chair in Gatesville prison, decide to become fugitives from the law.Armed with a forehead-slapping sense of naiveté, the two flee into the harsh sun-scorched desert, leaving behind self-centered lives of ease and carefree devilment. Neither could be less prepared to suffer hunger and thirst, merciless heat, life on the road, con artists, wily street people, and a world of poverty and slums, plus the mean streets of Juarez, Mexico.