Life Its Ownself review packs half a game of satire
Book review of Dan Jenkins Life Its Ownself, listing the author, publisher, and 1972 best seller status, with characters Billy Clyde Puckett and Shake Tiller in a Texan backstory. Notes Pro football injury, TV work in California, and a satire on referees and Player Association schemes amid misfit football figures at TCU Fort Worth.
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Barbara Jane
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Shake
Playboy
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Shake’s
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Life Its Ownself by Dan Jenkins review uproarious and raunchy
A sprawling mock biography of Billy Clyde, Barbara Jane, and football legends blends celebrity satire with pro sports lore. The novel Life Its Ownself is described as rollicking and ribald, urging adult readers to laugh and live with it while warning against giving it to Children.
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Billy Clyde
Barbara Jane
Ownself
Dan Jenkins
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Young Performers to Take Stage in Okaloosa Symphony Concert
The Okaloosa Symphony Orchestra marks its first Young Performers Concert on Sunday January 13 at 2 pm. Four local youths won a September competition in Junior and Senior divisions to perform Mozart and Chopin concertos and Mozart Exultate Jubilate with the orchestra.
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Symphony League
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