Run with the Horsemen - by Ferrol Sams (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A boy's account of growing up in the South during the depression era. Both a rare first novel and a new American classic, Sams novel has been compared to Tom Sawyer and To Kill a Mockingbird.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>From the author of <i>The Whisper of the River</i> and <i>Epiphany</i>. <p/>In this coming-of-age story, Porter Osbourne Jr. is a precocious, sensitive, and rambunctious boy trying to make it through adolescence during the Depression. On a red-clay farm in Georgia, he learns all there is to know about cotton-chopping, hog-killing, watermelon-thumping, and mule-handling. School provides a quick course in practical joking, schoolboy crushes, athletic glory, and clandestine sex. But it is Porter's family-- his genteel, patient mother, his swarm of cousins, his snuff-dipping grandmother, and, most of all, his beloved though flawed father--who teaches Porter the painful truths about growing up strong enough to run with the horsemen. <p/>The writing is elegant, reflective, and amused. Mr. Sams is a storyteller sure of his audience . . . gifted with perfect timing.--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>Remarkable both for its humor and its sustained and detailed picture of a mischievous Southern farmboy's life during the Great Depression.--<i>The Washington Post</i><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Ferrol Sams is a physician, humorist, storyteller, and the bestselling author of eight novels rooted in the oral tradition of southern humor and folklore. He lives in Fayetteville, Georgia.
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