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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: McKain, David W. Spellbound. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2016 (OCoLC)922630948 |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David W McKain |
ISBN: | 9780820349916 0820349917 |
OCLC Number: | 949641076 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; PART ONE; 1. God's Country; 2. Roots; 3. Spinning; 4. The Mark; 5. The Ledger; 6. The Fishbowl; 7. The Second Smartest Man in America; 8. Things of the Earth; 9. Strangers; 10. The Great Flood; 11. Exposure; 12. Boys; PART TWO; 13. Some Moves; 14. The Most Important Person in the world; 15. Play; 16. Money; 17. Nights; 18. Work; 19. God's Plan; 20. Graduation; 21. The Man Who Looked Like My Father; 22. Balls and Strikes; 23. Shoe Box; 24. In Everything Give Thanks. |
Responsibility: | David McKain. |
Abstract:
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.
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