When Johnny Lancaster comes into Bonney\'s Place, he hopes to find answers.
Hale writes a thrice-weekly personal essay column for the Houston Chronicle and divides his time between Houston, Washington County, Texas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico..
Jones best novel award from the Texas Institute of Letters, along with numerous column writing awards from the Headliners Foundation, United Press International, and the Associated Press.
He has won the Lon Tinkle lifetime achievement award and Jesse H.
About the Author: LEON Hale is the author of ten books, including two novels; four column collections, including regional bestseller Home Spun; and an award-winning memoir, Paper Hero.
Often hilariously funny, Bonney\'s Place is a world of obvious weaknesses, enduring strengths, and the many small exaltations of life.
This classic novel immerses the reader in a richly layered and vivid assemblage of rural Texas characters such as Rose- Mama, Turnip, Slat, Samuel Wilkerson Hobbs, Jr., and, of course, Bonney himself.
And in the person of Bonney himself, Johnny finds a man who is more than capable of stretching small truths and shading small sins, in order to prevent a larger miscarriage of justice.
This Texas tavern and the unforgettable characters for whom it provides recreation and, in some cases a reason for living, reflect a far more complex reality than Johnny had anticipated.
What Johnny discovers--along with the limits of his personal endurance--is that passing judgment is a perilous endeavor.
And it surely looks as though the person doing the stealing was Bonney Mc Camey himself, except Bonney\'s not the type of person to steal from an old man, is he? Johnny decides to hang around awhile and find out.
It\'s his inheritance.
At least, he wants the money back.
Somebody stole a sum of money from his father and he wants retribution.
When Johnny Lancaster comes into Bonney\'s Place, he hopes to find answers
