Author

Publication

2009 - University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska

Language

English

Word Count

48,000 words, Guess

Page Count

192 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • DDCB
  • LCCPS3563.A724927 Z466 2009
and 1 more
  • LCCPS3563.A724927Z466

Description

"The American memoir of Lee Martin, born into a farming family the same year his father unexpectedly lost both of his hands. Lee's father, once known for "doing a good turn for his neighbors," changed that afternoon in the cornfields to become an embittered, hardened man. "All our lives have private truths," Martin writes, "and the truth about my father was that after his accident he brought a deep and abiding rage into our home. I knew his hooks as intimately as I ever knew anything about my father." Lee's mother, called Beulah for the idyllic land at the end of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, never gave up hope that salvation might one day find their home."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

AccidentsBiographyAgricultureAutobiographyRural familiesFathers and sonsHomes and haunts

People

Lee Martin (1955-)

Times

Other Editions

  • From our houseUniversity of Nebraska Press2009

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