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Storm Season
by William Hauptman
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Storm Season "William Hauptman, for my money, is the most promising young writer to come out of the Southwest in a long time." —Larry McMurtry This powerful novel by Tony Award-winning playwright and acclaimed short story writer William Hauptman was originally published by Bantam in 1992 and has been reprinted by the University of Texas Press in recognition of its distinctive literary merit. In Storm Season, Hauptman's main character, Burl, terrified
by images of local and global destruction, becomes obsessed by tornadoes.
He forms a rock band called Uncontrolled Meltdown and then goes
away to college. When the band dissolves, Burl returns home to a
dead-end job on the railroad. He later takes in the former lover
of a menacing biker and her two children and prepares to return
to college to study meteorology. A train derailment, the biker's
kidnapping of one of the children, and the death of Burl's father
temporarily "derail" his plans, but in the end he fulfills
his dream: to experience the terrifying beauty of the inside of
a tornado. |
