In this novel, the protagonist's co-workers eat Friday lunches in the bakery bathroom, where they learn that a Puerto Rican from the Mission fled New York after his rich boss's daughter fell in love with him during Spanish lessons.
In this novel, the protagonist's co-workers eat Friday lunches in the bakery bathroom, where they learn that a Puerto Rican from the Mission fled New York after his rich boss's daughter fell in love with him during Spanish lessons. After an unfamiliar woman wishes "Merry Christmas" to this novel's protagonist, he thinks through the Christmas story, echoing his earlier vision of Christ coming up to Tucson to play poker with a redhead and a Swede before they board a nightmare train to their deaths. The protagonist of this novel remembers visiting (*) Stumpy Tesla's Shale City brothel with his best friend Bill Harper while he is being masturbated by his day nurse, with whom he can only communicate by "tapping" his head against a pillow. For 10 points, name this horrific journey into the trapped mind of the limbless, faceless World War I artillery victim Joe Bonham, an antiwar polemic by Dalton Trumbo.
In this novel, the protagonist's co-workers eat Friday lunches in the bakery bathroom, where they learn that a Puerto Rican from the Mission fled New York after his rich boss's daughter fell in love with him during Spanish lessons.
Johnny Got His Gun