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Comfortable Boy
Sam Pickering
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Description for Comfortable Boy
Describing the early years of his childhood, the author reveals what made him a successful teacher and writer. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 431.
This is a memoir from one of the South's best writers. Happiness is precious. For some people happiness is hard-won, slowly distilled from the grit of rasping days. For others, like Sam Pickering, happiness has come easily. In ""A Comfortable Boy"", Pickering describes the early years of childhood, rolling back through time on the wheels of anecdotal memory. With an eye peeled for detail, he recalls family and places. He meanders farm and school, roaming Tennessee and Virginia. He notices things that others sometimes miss or at least neglect. Recently, he wrote that he saw two stickers on the rear ... Read more
This is a memoir from one of the South's best writers. Happiness is precious. For some people happiness is hard-won, slowly distilled from the grit of rasping days. For others, like Sam Pickering, happiness has come easily. In ""A Comfortable Boy"", Pickering describes the early years of childhood, rolling back through time on the wheels of anecdotal memory. With an eye peeled for detail, he recalls family and places. He meanders farm and school, roaming Tennessee and Virginia. He notices things that others sometimes miss or at least neglect. Recently, he wrote that he saw two stickers on the rear ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Mercer University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780881461824
SKU
V9780881461824
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Ref
99-3
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