He leaves the pool hall to Sonny and Billy. Sonny and Dwayne go on a road trip to Mexico, and while they are out of town, Sam the Lion has a stroke and dies. Sam the Lion owns Thalia's pool hall and keeps an eye out for Sonny, Dwayne and Billy, a mentally challenged boy who Sam took in after Billy's father abandoned him. Jacy's mother Lois was once the prettiest, liveliest girl in town, but she is now an unhappy alcoholic in a miserable marriage. Jacy is a selfish, manipulative girl, constantly seeking the attention of her parents and the town. Meanwhile, Dwayne does his best to get Jacy to have sex with him, but she is gradually lured away to a faster, wilder crowd of rich kids from Wichita. Sonny enjoys having sex with Ruth and accepts that she is in love with him. Sonny dumps Charlene after a night at the picture show and begins an affair with Ruth Popper, the football coach's attractive but neglected wife. As the novel begins, Sonny is overwhelmed by the loneliness of the town and his dissatisfaction with his dating prospects. Dwayne dates Jacy Farrow, the richest, prettiest girl in town, and Sonny dates Charlene Duggs, an unattractive and unpleasant classmate. Both boys play football, hang out at the pool hall and obsess about sex. In the mid-1950s, Sonny Crawford and his best friend Dwayne are high school seniors in the small town of Thalia, Texas.
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