Spellbound - Growing Up in God's Country

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: David McKain
• Assisted by: Diane Ackerman (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780820343631
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4363-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Association of Writers and Wri; Association of Writers and Wri; Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction; The Sue William Silverman Priz; The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies