J A C K  O N  T H E  R O A D

B A B E

"One of Ray's sisters was a beautiful blonde called Babe - a tennis playing, surf riding doll of the West."

P A P E R - M A C H E  M O U N T A I N

"The mountains, the magnificent Rockies that you can see to the West from, any part of town, were 'papier-mache' The whole universe was crazy and cockeyed and extremely strange."

 

S U M M E R  H A Z E

"And here for the first time in my life I saw my beloved Mississippi River, dry in the summer haze, low water, with its big rank smell that smells like the raw body of America itself because it washes it up."

C O L D - W A T E R  F L A T

"Dean came to the door... A young Gene Autry-trim, thin hipped, blue-eyed, with a real Oklahoma accent - a sideburned hero of the snowy west."

L I K E  A  Y O U N G  B O X E R

"Bobbing his head, always looking down, nodding, like a young boxer to instructions... throwing a thousand 'yeses' and 'that's rights'."

 

"I... really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds."

M A R Y L O U

"Waiting like a longbodied emaciated Modigliani surrealist woman in a serious room."

H O L Y  C O N -  M A N

"The tremendous energy of a new kind of American Saint."