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    612-822-4611

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An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood

An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood

Carter, Jimmy

Paperback

Historical FiguresPresidents & Heads of State

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0743211995
ISBN13: 9780743211994
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Oct 16 2001
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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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