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Spellbound: Growing Up in God's Country (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
David McKain
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Description for Spellbound: Growing Up in God's Country (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
Paperback. In this soul-piercing memoir, David McKain penetrates the secret world of a poor boy coming of age on his own in "God's Country", a small oil-drilling town in the Allegheny Mountains during the 1940s and 1950s. Spellbound is an unforgettable story of a family enmeshed in tenderness and poverty, faith and affliction. Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; BM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 318.
In this soul-piercing memoir, David McKain penetrates the secret world of a poor boy coming of age on his own in "God's Country," a small oil-drilling town in the Allegheny Mountains during the 1940s and 1950s. His devoutly religious parents, overwhelmed by their own struggles, relinquished their son's upbringing to the town and the wooded slopes that encircled it. Cutting school, straying from Boy Scouts, dropping out of church choir, McKain maneuvered away from control and into the joys and trials of adolescent discovery. Spellbound is an unforgettable story of a family enmeshed in tenderness and poverty, faith and affliction. ... Read more
In this soul-piercing memoir, David McKain penetrates the secret world of a poor boy coming of age on his own in "God's Country," a small oil-drilling town in the Allegheny Mountains during the 1940s and 1950s. His devoutly religious parents, overwhelmed by their own struggles, relinquished their son's upbringing to the town and the wooded slopes that encircled it. Cutting school, straying from Boy Scouts, dropping out of church choir, McKain maneuvered away from control and into the joys and trials of adolescent discovery. Spellbound is an unforgettable story of a family enmeshed in tenderness and poverty, faith and affliction. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820343631
SKU
V9780820343631
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