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Spellbound: Growing Up in God's Country (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.) - Softcover
Synopsis
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.
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Book Description
AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction Selected by Diane Ackerman
About the Author
DAVID McKAIN (1937-2017) was a poet and professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut. His books of poems include In Touch, The Common Life, and Spirit Bodies. He is the editor of The Whole Earth: Essays in Appreciation, Anger, and Hope and Christianity: Some Non-Christian Appraisals.
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- PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 0820343633
- ISBN 13 9780820343631
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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