Trotter Ross

"A young man's quest for manhood in 1950s Texas. He is the scion of an oil family. Failing to achieve manhood with his fists, he tries love, stealing a football player's girlfriend. Subsequently he takes to the wilderness to eat fish raw, but the quest ends badly."@en
"Set in north Texas, and the Southwest in general, this coming-of-age novel pits a protagonist with a traditional, rural background, against the ""sophistication"" of Dallas in the late 1960s. The title character, Trotter, falls for a woman about to be married, and must deal with that rejection. He takes to the road to discover himself, and to discover the mysteries of sex -- in some very finely crafted literary love scenes. The precision of Hoggard's writing extends beyond the bedroom to the high plains of Texas and the mountains of New Mexico, with exquisite, poetic landscape descriptions. T."@en