Publisher's Synopsis
A story about growing up as an only child in oilfield towns in the Depression days, then on a farm in Missouri, being a gifted student academically but having deep phobias about sexual relations because of physical problems and religion. After accidentally becoming a Navy officer and later working as an petroleum engineer and economics adviser, raised and exhibited show dogs at the Westminster in New York. Survived a 56-year marriage based on a mistake, learned by experience how not to be a parent, and then found happiness at age 80 with a younger woman.
