Description:As he approaches puberty, Gabriel Kennedy Strauss, the only son of a southern Illinois farmer and his incurably sentimental wife, lives in a private world of fantasy which is all too often invaded by the stark reality of farm life and family conflict. Running away from home to live with his grandfather in San Francisco is chief among his fantasies until it is pushed to reality, and the adventure proves to be a minor disaster for the boy. An over-stern father and an ambivalent mother are unaware of the boy's problems until the abortive runaway attempt bring his needs sharply into focus. In this, his first novel, Martin has successfully captured the drudgery of farm work, the loneliness of long rural winters, and the graphic details of barnyard humor, and tempered it with the flights and fears of a sensitive twelve-year-old boy to create a beautifully introspective story of adolescence and rural life in the 1960s.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tethered. To get started finding Tethered, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: As he approaches puberty, Gabriel Kennedy Strauss, the only son of a southern Illinois farmer and his incurably sentimental wife, lives in a private world of fantasy which is all too often invaded by the stark reality of farm life and family conflict. Running away from home to live with his grandfather in San Francisco is chief among his fantasies until it is pushed to reality, and the adventure proves to be a minor disaster for the boy. An over-stern father and an ambivalent mother are unaware of the boy's problems until the abortive runaway attempt bring his needs sharply into focus. In this, his first novel, Martin has successfully captured the drudgery of farm work, the loneliness of long rural winters, and the graphic details of barnyard humor, and tempered it with the flights and fears of a sensitive twelve-year-old boy to create a beautifully introspective story of adolescence and rural life in the 1960s.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tethered. To get started finding Tethered, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.