Spellbound

Growing Up in God's Country

Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Biography & Memoir
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Author: David McKain, Diane Ackerman ISBN: 9780820349916
Publisher: University of Georgia Press Publication: March 1, 2016
Imprint: University of Georgia Press Language: English
Author: David McKain, Diane Ackerman
ISBN: 9780820349916
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication: March 1, 2016
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Language: English

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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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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