Portis, Charles. <br/><br/>
Norwood / 
Charles Portis. 
 - New York :  Overlook Press,  1966 
 - 168 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Out of the Neon Desert of Roller Dromes, chili parlors, the Grand Ole Opry, and girls who want "to live in a trailer and play records all night" comes ex-marine and troubadour Norwood Pratt. Sent on a mission to New York by Grady Fring, the Kredit King, Norwood has visions of "speeding across the country in a late model car, seeing all the sights." By the time he returns home to Ralph, Texas, Norwood has met his true love, Rita Lee, on a Trailway bus; befriended Edmund B. Ratner, the self-described "world's smallest perfect man"; and helped Joann, "the chicken with a college education," realize her true potential in life.  
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780879517038 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Young men--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Texas--Fiction
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<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC POR