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But Not for Love

By: Edwin Shrake

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This Texas Traditions Series reprint takes us back to the Lone Star State during the Cold War at the beginning of the 1960s. The postwar generation is in a frenzy of high living and profligate spending. Big Texas oil is still subsidized by a federal depletion allowance and cattle still account for much of the state’s wealth. But these longtime mainstays of Texas finance are giving way to transistors and computers. A new millionaire class is growing up around business mergers and electronic technology. The characters in Shrake’s novel are caught in this brave new world in one way or another. Some are the princes of prosperity; others are victims of it. This is a world of lobbyists, merger lawyers, small-time politicos, sons of oil money, and the women who cheer them on or worry about their souls. In the opening section of the novel, we visit the Texas Gulf Coast and see the machinations of Sam Guthrie and Waddy Morris Jr. as they attempt to take over a rival technology company. Back in Dallas, idealistic attorney Ben Carpenter moves to thwart the Guthrie/Morris takeover. Then we move to Fort Worth and attend the drunken party given in honor of Ben Carpenter’s thirtieth birthday. The party moved to Mexico on Cadmus Wilkins’s bus where everyone has to confront his or her inner self. And some are found wanting. The several vignettes of the novel paint an accurate picture of Texas as it moves into the urban era and as its middle class began deserting the old verities and tasting what were once forbidden pleasures. Shrake is a first-rate stylist who knows how the upper half lives.

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TCU Press

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0875652336

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9780875652337

Limo

By: Dan Jenkins,Edwin "Bud" Shrake

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Limo

By: Dan Jenkins,Edwin "Bud" Shrake

Decades before it saturated the airwaves, Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake actually invented reality TV--and skewered it into a comic novel that was way ahead of its time. Frank Mallory is a big gun at one of the four major networks. Cruising around Manhattan in his "Silver Goblet," a Rolls Royce limo, he finds that life in the fast lane is beginning to unravel. Having to deal with the departure of his wife, his boss "The Big Guy," and crazed Hollywood stars--while at the same time having to maintain a high-stakes job--all tend to make Frank Mallory, well, act out. After Frank struggles to fill all his number-four network's prime-time slots--it tends to lag behind CBS, NBC, and ABC--the Big Guy forces him to create a show called "Just Up The Street," which is meant to entertain ordinary Americans with the "real" lives of other ordinary Americans. Ultimately the resulting script causes the Big Guy's downfall and forces everyone else to return to a reality that comes without scare quotes. Limo is a hilarious, entertaining caricature of the lifestyle of the rich and famous, and provides a fascinating insight into the world of network television. Through a haze of booze and drugs, we see Frank's desperation for a normal life and real relationships. Frank Mallory's only true relationships are found in the confines of his Silver Goblet, where he finds friendship with D. Wayne Cooper and love with Sally Hawks. Only after a series of crises does Frank ultimately find himself--and the happiness that has eluded him. Originally published in 1976, Limo is now back in print, complete with a foreword from acclaimed author Jeff Guinn.

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Texas A&M University Press

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0875655513

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9780875655512

Hollywood Mad Dogs

A Novel

By: Edwin "Bud" Shrake

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Hollywood Mad Dogs

A Novel

By: Edwin "Bud" Shrake

Before his death in 2009, legendary Texas author Edwin “Bud” Shrake completed a final novel based on his real-life adventures as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1970s and ’80s. In this new book, we meet screenwriter Richard Swift, who has been lured away from his cushy job at Sports Illustrated to write a movie for Jack Roach, a matinee idol famous for his electric blue eyes, dimpled chin, and a swagger that makes women swoon. As Swift and his new movie star buddy hurtle through days and nights of Hollywood madness, Shrake’s crystalline prose purrs like a Lamborghini speeding along the Pacific Coast Highway. There are spies and fake houses, mountains of drugs, weird sex, crimes, and bizarre feuds. In Hollywood Mad Dogs, Shrake deftly satirizes a world where a screenwriter is supplied with a bag of cocaine and given a week to write a script, a star demands that a pet cat be his sidekick on the trail, and two competing box office titans square off on a golf course, “each of them armed with a putter.” This rollicking new novel, discovered among Shrake’s literary papers at the Wittliff Collections, provides a hilarious and insightful look at the Hollywood meat grinder. It is a story only Bud Shrake could tell, and it is a worthy addition to the author’s celebrated career, which includes some of the most highly praised novels written by a Texan.

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Texas A&M University Press

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162349883X

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9781623498832

Night Never Falls

A Novel

By: Edwin Shrake

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Night Never Falls

A Novel

By: Edwin Shrake

Harry Sparrow, an American journalist determined to win a Pulitzer, travels to Dien Bien Phu and becomes involved with an ex-Nazi legionnaire and his girlfriend, Claudette Frontenac, in the midst of a confrontation between the French Army and a Communist force.

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Random House

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0307830187

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9780307830180

Harvey Penick's Little Green Golf Book

Further Reflections of a Grown Caddie

By: Harvey Penick,Bud Shrake,Edwin Shrake

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Harvey Penick's Little Green Golf Book

Further Reflections of a Grown Caddie

By: Harvey Penick,Bud Shrake,Edwin Shrake

Written by the author of The Little Red Golf Book, this volume picks up where the first book left off. It features the same blend of simple wisdom, sound golfing instruction and good common sense that made the previous title so popular with golfers of all ages and levels of ability.

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0002184796

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9780002184793

Harvey Penick'S Little Red Book

Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf

By: Harvey Penick

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Harvey Penick'S Little Red Book

Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf

By: Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick's life in golf began when he started caddying at the Austin, (Texas), Country Club at age eight. Eighty-one years later he is still there, still dispensing wisdom to pros and beginners alike. His stature in the golf world is reflected in the remarkable array of champions he's worked with, both men and women, including U.S. Open champion and golf's leading money winner Tom Kite, Masters champion Ben Crenshaw, and LPGA Hall of Famers Mickey Wright, Betsy Rawls, and Kathy Whitworth. It is not for nothing that the Teacher of the Year Award given by the Golf Teachers Association is called the Harvey Penick Award. Now, after sixty years of keeping notes on the things he's seen and learned and on the golfing greats he's taught, Penick is finally letting his Little Red Book (named for the red notebook he's always kept) be seen by the golf world. His simple, direct, practical wisdom pares away all the hypertechnical jargon that's grown up around the golf swing, and lets all golfers, whatever their level, play their best. He avoids negative words; when Tom Kite asked him if he should "choke down" on the club for a particular shot, Harvey told him to "grip down" instead, to keep the word "choke" from entering his mind. He advises golfers to have dinner with people who are good putters; their confidence may rub off, and it's certainly better than listening to bad putters complain. And he shows why, if you've got a bad grip, the last thing you want is a good swing. Throughout, Penick's love of golf and, more importantly, his love of teaching shine through. He gets as much pleasure from watching a beginner get the ball in the air for the first time as he does when one of his students wins the U.S. Open. Harvey Penick's Little Red Book is an instant classic, a book to rank with Ben Hogan's Modern Fundamentals of Golf and Tommy Armour's How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671759922

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9780671759926

The Wisdom of Harvey Penick

By: Harvey Penick,Bud Shrake

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The Wisdom of Harvey Penick

By: Harvey Penick,Bud Shrake

This choice selection from "Harvey Penick's Little Red Book" and its treasured successors, complete with photos from the late legendary golf pro's family scrapbooks, is laced with the simple, profound wisdom that made Harvey Penick the sport's greatest teacher. 25+ photos.

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362

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Simon and Schuster

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0684845083

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9780684845081

Game for a Lifetime

More Lessons and Teachings

By: Harvey Penick

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Game for a Lifetime

More Lessons and Teachings

By: Harvey Penick

In a collection of inspirational golfing wisdom, the author provides entertaining recollections and practical advice for golfers of all ages.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684800594

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9780684800592

Willie

An Autobiography

By: Willie Nelson,Bud Shrake

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Willie

An Autobiography

By: Willie Nelson,Bud Shrake

Nelson, self-proclaimed "outlaw'' of country music, is depicted from many angles in this rambling account of his trajectory into celebrity. Written with freelancer Shrake in salty and sometimes vulgar language, Nelson's reflections on his three wives, children, his country music peers and others in his large, floating entourage reveal a hard-living man. The singer toiled in the fields as a child during the Depression, was left by his teenage parents with grandparents who raised him and his sister in Texas. The experience was pivotal to his career: "My desire to escape from manual labor started in the cotton fields of my childhood and cannot be overstated.'' Nelson began his road life as "an itinerant singer and guitar picker'' on trips punctuated with alcohol, drugs and sex as he climbed to eminence in the world of country music. Now "crossed over,'' popular with national audiences, Nelson notes that he enjoys all the personal perquisites of his success. Among his revelations here, the singer recalls smoking pot on the roof of the White House after entertaining at a Carter state dinner. Photos not seen by PW. BOMC and QPBC alternates; first serial to Texas Monthly and Golf Digest; paperback rights to Pocket Books. (October) - Publishers Weekly.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0815410808

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9780815410805

And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend

Further Reflections of a Grown Caddie

By: Harvey Penick

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And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend

Further Reflections of a Grown Caddie

By: Harvey Penick

Contains stories about golf and golfers, golf instruction, and authors' personal insights into the sport.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671871889

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9780671871888

Billy Boy

By: Bud Shrake,Edwin Shrake

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Billy Boy

By: Bud Shrake,Edwin Shrake

Billy faces tough times after his mother dies and his father's gambling leaves them penniless in an unfamiliar city.

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0743224809

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9780743224802

For All who Love the Game

Lessons and Teachings for Women

By: Harvey Penick

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Lessons and Teachings for Women

By: Harvey Penick

Offers advice and techniques for women golfers to improve different aspects of their game.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684800586

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9780684800585

The Game for a Lifetime

A Final Collection of Lessons and Teachings

By: Harvey Penick,Bud Shrake,Edwin Shrake

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The Game for a Lifetime

A Final Collection of Lessons and Teachings

By: Harvey Penick,Bud Shrake,Edwin Shrake

TIMELESS LESSONS FROM THE MASTER OF THE GAME This, the fourth book by Harvey Penick, was nearly finished when he died in April 1995. A return to the timeless wisdom that has made his first bestseller, Harvey Penick's Little Red Book, a modern classic, The Game for a Lifetime does not contain the technical swing tips and stance aids of today's instructional guides, but dispenses a philosophy on golf, and on life. Harvey Penick knew that the teachings in his book would stand the test of time, and he spent his lifetime pursuing and enjoying all that the game has to offer -- physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The Game for a Lifetime, the final book by Harvey Penick, stands as a wonderful testimonial to this legendary career, his celebrated teaching style, and his ability to affect the lives of the people who had the good fortune to know him.

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0002187574

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9780002187572

I Must Say

Edwin Newman on English, the News, and Other Matters

By: Edwin Newman

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I Must Say

Edwin Newman on English, the News, and Other Matters

By: Edwin Newman

A collection of the bestselling author's syndicated columns offers observations and judgments on word play, British language and custom, sports, Muzak, news reporting, U.S. foreign policy, and America's lifestyles

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Grand Central Publishing

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0446390992

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But Not for Love

But Not for Love

Limo

Limo

Hollywood Mad Dogs

Hollywood Mad Dogs

Night Never Falls

Night Never Falls

Harvey Penick's Little Green Golf Book

Harvey Penick's Little Green Golf Book

Harvey Penick'S Little Red Book

Harvey Penick'S Little Red Book

The Wisdom of Harvey Penick

The Wisdom of Harvey Penick

Game for a Lifetime

Game for a Lifetime

Willie

Willie

And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend

And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend

Billy Boy

Billy Boy

For All who Love the Game

For All who Love the Game

The Game for a Lifetime

The Game for a Lifetime

I Must Say

I Must Say

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