The author relates his memories of growing up in the 1940s and 1950s in the Allegheny Mountains as the son of a churchless Methodist minister and a fifth-grade schoolteacher

Spellbound: Growing Up in God's Country

Biographies & Memoirs

McKain, David

Regional U.S.

Touchstone Books

The author relates his memories of growing up in the 1940s and 1950s in the Allegheny Mountains as the son of a churchless Methodist minister and a fifth-grade schoolteacher

Parenting & Relationships

Univ of Georgia Pr

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.

Spellbound: Growing Up in God's Country (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction)

University of Georgia Press

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.

Spellbound Growing Up

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University of Pittsburgh Press

1990 ITHACA HOUSE First Edition SOFTCOVER

Spirit Bodies: Poems (ITHACA HOUSE POETRY SERIES)

Poetry

Greenfield Review Pr

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Spellbound: Growing Up in God's Country

Spellbound: Growing Up in God's Country

Spellbound: Growing Up in God's Country (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction)

Spellbound Growing Up

Spirit Bodies: Poems (ITHACA HOUSE POETRY SERIES)