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Overview. In small town Oklahoma during the 1970s, a rough-and-tumble teenager learns to navigate the world with his older brother and a mostly absent father in S. E. Hinton’s young adult fiction novel Tex. Published in 1979, the book was subsequently made into a popular movie starring young Matt Dillon in the title role.
Complete summary of S. E. Hinton's Tex. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Tex.
Tex is a novel by S. E. Hinton, published in 1979. 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, Oklahoma, a fictional suburb of Tulsa. Tex and his older brother Mason live by themselves while their father tours the rodeo ...
- 224p
- S.E. Hinton
- 1979
- Delacorte Press/ Laurel-Leaf Library
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The story in this short novel is episodic but tied together by Texas McCormick’s struggle with the changes in his life. It begins when Tex comes home from school one day and discovers that Mason,...
10704 ratings (Goodreads) Tex. by S. E. Hinton. == Plot == The book opens with Tex McCormick, a 15-year-old who loves horses, and his brother Mason (Mace), living in a small town and Jamie the girl next door. Tex is growing up mostly with Mace in a small country home.
Main Character. Gender - Male Profession/status: - student Age: - a teen Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American) Setting. How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 () United States - Yes The US: - Southeast Farm/Ranch? - Yes Farm/Ranch: - ranch - lot of descript of animal care Small town? - Yes Small town people: - nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee.