An Hour Before Daylight : Memories of A Rural Boyhood Hardback
by JIMMY CARTER
Hardback
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"An American classic." -The New Yorker In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country. Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy, offering an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and a strict segregationist who treated black workers with respect and fairness; his strong-willed and well-read mother; and the five other people who shaped his early life, three of whom were black. Carter's clean and eloquent prose evokes a time when the cycles of life were predictable and simple and the rules were heartbreaking and complex.
In his singular voice and with a novelist's gift for detail, Jimmy Carter creates a sensitive portrait of an era that shaped the nation and recounts a classic, American story of enduring importance.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:464 pages
- Publisher:Simon & Schuster
- Publication Date:01/01/2001
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- ISBN:9780743212205
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:464 pages
- Publisher:Simon & Schuster
- Publication Date:01/01/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780743212205