Spellbound Growing Up - Softcover
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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AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction Selected by Diane Ackerman
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david mckain is a poet and professoremeritus of English at the University ofConnecticut. His books of poems include InTouch, The Common Life, and Spirit Bodies.He is the editor of The Whole Earth: Essaysin Appreciation, Anger, and Hope and Chris-tianity: Some Non-Christian Appraisals.
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- PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0822955075
- ISBN 13 9780822955078
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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