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Distant Son: An Alabama Boyhood (Voices Along the Trace)
Norman McMillan
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Description for Distant Son: An Alabama Boyhood (Voices Along the Trace)
Hardcover. Num Pages: 257 pages, illustrations. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
Two central Alabama counties, Hale and Tuscaloosa, provide the setting for Distant Son, the absorbing story of a young boy struggling, during the forties and fifties, to define himself in a world of poverty and deprivation.
Norman McMillan was the eighth of ten children. His forceful mother Lucille was greatly ambitious for her children, and his feckless father Albert never knew how to capitalise on his advantages. During much of young McMillan’s first eighteen years, his family sharecropped, living in a series of rough, unpainted houses and struggling to claw out a meager living by truck ... Read more
Two central Alabama counties, Hale and Tuscaloosa, provide the setting for Distant Son, the absorbing story of a young boy struggling, during the forties and fifties, to define himself in a world of poverty and deprivation.
Norman McMillan was the eighth of ten children. His forceful mother Lucille was greatly ambitious for her children, and his feckless father Albert never knew how to capitalise on his advantages. During much of young McMillan’s first eighteen years, his family sharecropped, living in a series of rough, unpainted houses and struggling to claw out a meager living by truck ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cahaba Trace Commission
Condition
New
Number of Pages
257
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780971191310
SKU
V9780971191310
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-3
About Norman McMillan
Norman Mcmillan is co-author of Three Generations of Warriors: The Argonne Forest, The Flying Tigers, and the Skies of Vietnam and was the recipient of the Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Literary Scholar.
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