NO MORE REUNIONS

by John Bowers ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 1973

This is a likable, hung loose account of growing up in a small Tennessee town where for Johnny, otherwise known as Bones, the twin preoccupations were football and that other kind of bailing where he made out less well. Bones came from the kind of family where you went to church on Sundays, had meals on time, and turned your lights out at eleven: less so his closest friend Pancho who lives with his drinking uncle Buford and later will leave town after forging checks and fornicating with everyone around. Then there's Meredith, the romantic object of his dreams of glory -- she's the kind of southern belle who can't accommodate more than a half of stick of gum at one chewing and all the boys in town follow her around. Bowers' novel, by no means as sad an envoi as that Last Picture Show, comes from roughly the same domain and moves easily from the sandlot to the poolroom, from the Chocolate Bar to the Majestic, and moves on. En route it generates a lot of seltz with a spritz of nostalgia.

Pub Date: March 1, 1973

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Dutton

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1973

Categories: FICTION