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Jim the Boy - by Tony Earley (Paperback)

Jim the Boy - by  Tony Earley (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>It's 1934, and Jim Glass is turning ten in Aliceville, North Carolina. This is a deceptively gentle, nostalgic look at childhood during an era when life was by turns harsh and hopeful. Earley offers an understated, poetic tribute to those families whose pride in and love for one another helped them face hard times.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Both delightful and wise, <i>Jim the Boy</i> brilliantly captures the pleasures and fears of youth at a time when America itself was young and struggling to come into its own.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Tony Earley</b> is the author of the novels <i>Jim the Boy</i> and <i>The Blue Star</i>. His fiction has earned a National Magazine Award and appeared in <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>Harper's</i>, and <i>Best American Short Stories</i>. Earley was chosen for both <i>The New Yorker</i>'s inaugural best 20 Under 40 list of fiction writers and Granta's 20 Best Young American Novelists. He lives with his family in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the Samuel Milton Fleming Chair in English at Vanderbilt University.

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