Gold Flake Hydrant

by Greg Matthews

Young Burris Weems, continuing his search for something in which he can put his faith, befriends one of Buford, Indiana's strangest residents--Lennie the Loop, a paranoid schizophrenic--and learns a hard lesson about self-sufficiency

250 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Greg Matthews is the author of eleven books, including The Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, heralded by the Christian Science Monitor as “the true sequel to Mark Twain’s masterpiece,” and two acclaimed sagas of the Old West, Heart of the Country and Power in the Blood. He has published three books—Callisto, The Dolphin People, and The Secret Book of Sacred Things—under the nom de plume Torsten Krol. The author describes himself as “a guy in a room, writing, writing.”

Reviews

[Carol · Rating 1 out of 5]

Didn't like main characters

[Matthew Russell · Rating 5 out of 5]

This sequel to Little Red Rooster is even more obscure and harder to find, but worth the effort. If you loved the first one, you'll love this, and you'll wish there were more.