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ABOUT THIS BOOK | CONTENTS
[COVER]
Cultvating
the Texas Twister Hybrid is a coming
of age novel, in the spirit of Portrait of
the Artist as a Young Marijuana Grower
tradition.
Set in a little house on the prairie near
Austin Texas in 1977, the plot follows
Walker, an over-educated slacker who moves
onto a desolate farm under condition that
he sharecrop marijuana.
The surface story is about Walker's
relationships: his apprenticeship to the
master grower Greg, and his interaction
with his girlfriend Ruth as they struggle
against poverty, drought, a plague of
locusts, pot rustlers and police to bring
in the cash crop.
The book is a gardener's journal; it is
also a criminal's internal monologue. As a
gardener's journal it lyrically depicts
the growth of consciousness accompanying
the pastoral life. The criminal's internal
monologue humorously contrasts as we
experience his states of increasing
awareness and imagination on the path to
attainment of country wisdom through
developing a work ethic.
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this book Published 1998
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