The Bone Pickers.

AL. DEWLEN

Publication: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1958, New York

First edition. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket with light professional restoration by a master paper conservator to the spine ends, corners, and extremities. An outstanding novel set in the Texas Panhandle during the 1950's. Author's second novel, he served in the U.S. Marines, and was educated at Baylor and the University of Oklahoma. At the time of writing this book he was living in Amarillo, Texas. A work about a wealthy, eccentric family in the Texas Panhandle ... the Mungers of Amarillo. The six Munger siblings are the heirs of hard-drinking, hardscrabble farmer Cecil Munger, who in one generation brought his family from Dust Bowl poverty to unfathomable wealth. Sitting as directors of the several corporations in which their wealth resides, five of the siblings ... Spain, Texas, Laska, China, and Bethel ... struggle to balance their past with their present, their place in society, and their obligations to community, to themselves, and to their damaged and dependent brother June, confined to the old homestead. Dramatically traces the rebellion of individual personalities against the debilitating restrictions of the family oil empire in West Texas. A handsome copy.