This is STORY TIME FOR GROWNUPS...age-appropriate for 15 years old & up.
Yocona Puff Adder is a coming-and-going-of-age novel that's like three books rolled into one. Starting out like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, as the boys grow a little older it gets more like Forrest Gump. Then, as they get a lot older it becomes more like Tuesdays with Morrie.
In the early 50's, two seven-year olds in Oxford, Mississippi, grow up under the tutelage of a world famous author called Mr. Jefferson. Because one of the boys' grandfather owns property adjacent to him, they are forever encountering him as he teaches them things little boys need to learn about... everything from puberty to mankind and humanity. Although this is before racial integration and one of the boys is black and the other white, they remain best friends right through those struggles.
In 1962, when Mr. Faulkn...Mr. Jefferson that is...dies off, they are teen-agers by then and he has already planted the seed in them for his influence. They grow through working in the logging woods, Vietnam, college, and careers in the natural resources, where they both work for the Forest Service but see things from different perspectives during the environmental movement of the 70s-90s.
As they grow old and retire, they remain the best of friends, but then have to deal with each other in old age...and dementia...and an old folks' home.
Written in the unique genre of "faction", this is twisted truths, embellished events and purified people...mostly true and only tweaked a little to be more humorous, more horrible, more dramatic, more entertaining and interesting, more sexy, etc..
The author gives the guarantee that if you don't love this book, he will eat it.
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A Trade Paperback Edition of Yocona Puff Adder (cloth) is also available from James A. Rock & Co., Publishers
http://www.rockpublishing.com/yocona.htm
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Repeatedly voted one of Oxford's favorite "living writers" by Oxford Eagle Newspaper's readership. Retired from a distinguished career as a professional Forester and Wildlife Biologist, Gerald Inmon now resides in his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife of forty years. Patricia is currently the First Baptist Church Secretary. Their only surviving son, Tony, is a Minister Missionary and Church Planter Strategist currently in Costa Rica. 