Tex (novel)

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Tex is a novel by S.E. Hinton, published in 1979. It was adapted to film in 1982, and starred Matt Dillon. The book (like Rumble Fish and That Was Then, This Is Now) takes place in the same universe as Hinton's first book The Outsiders, but in a rural town called Garyville, a Suburb of urban Tulsa, though some events take the characters into Tulsa.

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Easygoing, thoughtless, and direct, Tex at fifteen likes everyone and everything, especially his horse, Negrito, and Johnny Collins's blue-eyed sister, Jamie. He thinks life with his seventeen-year-old brother, Mason, in their ramshackle house would be just about perfect if only Mace would stop complaining about Pop. Pop hasn't been home in five months. Mace wants to get out of Oklahoma. Tex just seems to attract trouble and danger . . . Suddenly everything is falling apart. With mixed emotions Tex doesn't know what to think once he finds out something about his Father. Tex runs away to stop his head from spinning, but that only leads to another unexpected event where Tex gets shot. Will Tex and his brother Mason get along? Will his "father" leave again? Those questions spin through Tex's mind and fill the book and movie full of excitement.

[edit] Connections to That Was Then, This Is Now

See Continuity within S.E. Hinton Novels