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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Run with the Horsemen

Run with the Horsemen

Sams, Ferrol

Paperback

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $24.00

ISBN10: 0140072748
ISBN13: 9780140072747
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jul 3 1984
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
From the author of The Whisper of the River and Epiphany.

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.

The writing is elegant, reflective, and amused. Mr. Sams is a storyteller sure of his audience . . . gifted with perfect timing.--The New York Times Book Review

Remarkable both for its humor and its sustained and detailed picture of a mischievous Southern farmboy's life during the Great Depression.--The Washington Post

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