An Indiana Childhood and Other Stories - Hardcover

Coomer, James C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1401045847 ISBN 13: 9781401045845

Publisher: Xlibris Corp

Synopsis

Evansville, Indiana is no longer the city that I describe in this story. That Evansville was the city of my boyhood that I remember with increasing fondness. It was a blue collar, multi-ethnic, industrial city surrounded by miles of corn, wheat, and soybean fields. It was populated by hard working, hard drinking people who were sitting astride a cultural dividing line between the industrial northern part of the country, ( represented by a blue collar labor force, factories, and organized labor), and the agrarian southern part of the country, (represented by agriculture, a conservative religiosity, and segregation). Evansville was the chrysalis that protected me and nurtured me while I struggled toward an identity. It was a wonderful city in which to be a boy. It was a wonderful time in which to grow up.

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About the Author:

James C. Coomer was born in Evansville, Indiana in 1939 and holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. He has held university administrative positions of Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, and Associate Vice Chancellor for Curriculum and Research. He has served on the staff of the Mayor of a large metropolitan city and on the staff of a U.S. Senator in Washington, D.C. Dr. Coomer is the author or editor of three books, numerous professional articles, and over 100 newspaper and magazine articles. After a career of teaching and writing about political science, he now devotes his writing efforts to poetry and short stories. His short story, Destiny, was voted Best Fictional Short Story by the Gulf Coast Writers Association, in 1991. He presently lives and writes in Norcross, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.

About this edition

• Publisher: Xlibris Corp
• ISBN 10: 1401045847
• ISBN 13: 9781401045845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 164