The sterile cuckoo / John Nichols.

Title :

The sterile cuckoo

Author:

Nichols, John Treadwell, 1940-

Format:

Books

Summary:

Eighteen-year-old Jerry Payne first meets Pookie Adams at the Friarsburg, Oklahoma, bus depot and is overwhelmed by her zany, rambling monologue. Over the next two years, Pookie teaches Jerry to grow beyond his beer-blasted, fraternity mentality and to open his heart to her, until she disappears from his life as rapidly as she entered it.

Language:

English

ISBN - ISSN:

0393315355

9780393315356

Physical Description:

222 pages ; 21 cm.

General Note:

Reissue of the 1965 edition.

Subject:

College students -- Fiction.

College students.

Fiction.

Series:

Norton paperback fiction.

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Summary

While Pookie gets off at St. Louis, she pursues Jerry by letter and then in person-and before he knows it, he's involved with a seemingly crazy, startlingly honest girl. Pookie helps Jerry leave behind his beer-blasted frat self as she teaches him to open his heart to her. Then, suddenly, she disappears, leaving in her wake an eternal trail of love and wonder.

Author Notes

John Nichols is the author of On Top of Spoon Mountain, The Wizard of Loneliness, A Ghost in the Music, If Mountains Die, The Milagro Beanfield War, and other works. He lives in Taos, New Mexico.