Growing an Inch

1949 A story about a boy who made a solemn vow and became a man keeping it.
Saint Paul/Minneapolis - Those unforgettable days after World War II when people turned back to their personal lives with optimism, a time of Fibber McGee and Molly, newsreels, milkmen, boogie-woogie, The Best Years of Our Lives and chrome grilled automobiles.

About the author

Stanley Gordon West was born in St. Paul, MN and grew up during the Great Depression and the World War II years. He graduated from Central High School in 1950 and attended Macalester College and the University of Minnesota, earning a degree in history and geology in 1955. He moved from the midwest to Montana in 1964 where he raised a large family. Stanley wrote several novels, including AMOS: To Ride a Dead Horse, which was produced as a CBS Movie of the Week starring Kirk Douglas, Elizabeth Montgomery and Dorothy McGuire and was nominated for four Emmys. You Are My Sunshine was his last work before his passing in 2015.

Product details

• Authors: Stanley Gordon West
• Publisher: Lexington Marshall Publishing, LLC
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2003
• EAN: 9780965624718
• ISBN: 978-0-9656247-1-8
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Series: Fiction; Fiction
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature