Five Cards and a Cathouse - Hodge, Ken
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Five Cards and a Cathouse is a humorous, light-hearted, coming-of-age tale of a young boy's life, marinated in several of Central Oregon's tiny cowtowns before and after World War II's Pearl Harbor attack-history brought alive at the home front level. There are also occasional family forays to the "thriving metropolis" of Portland (Oregon) and the World's Fair in San Francisco, California. Narrated by teenager Hamilton Skutt, whose life is complicated by a Latino man, tells his story with a voice that is at times willful and filled with salty language fed by raging thoughts. The Mexican shows…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Five Cards and a Cathouse is a humorous, light-hearted, coming-of-age tale of a young boy's life, marinated in several of Central Oregon's tiny cowtowns before and after World War II's Pearl Harbor attack-history brought alive at the home front level. There are also occasional family forays to the "thriving metropolis" of Portland (Oregon) and the World's Fair in San Francisco, California. Narrated by teenager Hamilton Skutt, whose life is complicated by a Latino man, tells his story with a voice that is at times willful and filled with salty language fed by raging thoughts. The Mexican shows up at odd times to leave a playing card meaning what?-warning?-threat? Skutt tells of romantic experiences, family dynamics, details of life in the thirties and forties, wartime upheavals, and recollections of the movies, songs, comics and radio shows of that era. The book's title stems from an Old West custom of legal cathouses (brothels) in western cities to save local ladies from cowboys in town looking for a good time. This is a fascinating "page-turner"!
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Ken Hodge spent his boyhood years in central Oregon during the thirties and forties. The Great Depression somehow missed this region of snow-capped mountains overlooking small towns recently carved from irrigated sagebrush desert. Carefree days for kids. No television or video games, but something better-friends and freedom and the whole outdoors to find adventure. Holding a BBA degree from the University of Oregon, Hodge followed a career in public relations and community development. Now retired, he has written a light-hearted YA novel marinated in the history of those times, inspired by his own experiences and his off-the-wall sense of humor.