Porky Baycann, Volume 1: His Summer of '43 in Palomino

by Gunner, Tank
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ISBN: 9781543987348
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Overview

Porky Baycann is the companion to Tank Gunner's immensely popular WWII historical fiction novel, Palomino. Many of the characters Tank's readers came to love & hate in Palomino - Twig Chestnutt with his German POWs, Teresa & Tina Chestnutt, Mayor Shipp, Major Monroe, Preacher Adams, Miss Ruby, Waldo, Pinky & Patsy, & Eliot Thurgood - appear in the young life of Porky during the summer of 1943. Gene Autry invites Porky to eat a hamburger in Jeeps Cafe where the singing cowboy offers friendship & plants the seed for the boy to become a Boy Scout. A letter from the Army tells Porky's momma his daddy is missing in action & they become desperate to learn more. While picking cotton in Major Monroe's field, Preacher Adams introduces his young nephew, T J, to Porky & they become fast friends. Anxious for T J to join him as a Scout, Porky discovers it is not to be. Porky defends T J in a frightening encounter with Eliot in a cotton gin. Sally Edmonds loves Porky & hopes to become his girlfriend. Porky discovers dark goings-on in Palomino.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Gunner, Tank
  • ISBN: 9781543987348
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.40 x 1.10
  • Number Of Pages: 388
  • Publication Year: 2019

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