The Boy in the Model-T

WHEN STEPHEN LONGSTREET was twelve years old, his grandfather (an unreconstructed G.A.R. officer) and his mother (one of the prettiest women of her day) took him across the continent and back on a year-long trek in a Model-T Ford. Now, a quarter of a century later, the mature and sensitive writer looks back on that time and projects it with drama, with humor, and with love. Before little Stevie returned from the trip, he had had his thirteenth birthday; he had fallen in love with a heartless sop