THE ICEMAN

by Weldon Hill ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 28, 1976

Amiably sunny updated Tarkingtonia with Henry Coonrod of Red Hill, Oklahoma champing at his virginity while playing the lead in the school play, learning to dance and pet (it's 1938), landing his first job (Dad's lost his) delivering ice around town. Dad gets temporary work managing a pool hall and he and Henry have a bareknuckle free-for-all with the mean-ass Fisher clan. The boy's delivery route takes him into all the bars and the kitchens of the rich and poor. Mainly, though, he's horny and suddenly finds himself the target of three girls, a sex-hungry schoolteacher, a divorcee, and his Mom's two new young lady boarders. It's only a question of pages before someone pins her tail on the donkey. Salty talk, sometimes wise and funny, and a fair image of pre-WW II puritanism, but there's no real edge.

Pub Date: Sept. 28, 1976

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Morrow

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1976

Categories: FICTION