Is a coming-of-age novel not based in sexual awareness as is the norm these days, but family relations, baseball , farming, aging, death, in dealing with challenges of farming and country life. A simple, nice read, a quick casual read.
I found it in a review of 'what I'm reading now ' -and liked the NYT review
"Earley has had the courage to return to artistic first principles: clarity, balance, ease. Set in Depression-era North Carolina, his year-in-the-life story of a rural boyhood unmarked by parental abuse, erotic turmoil or domestic dysfunction seems strangely brave and new. ''Jim the Boy'' is a novel that does one thing memorably instead of many things forgettably."..."Earley isn't into genre-bending; he tells his coming-of-age story straight, making all the familiar stops in a way that reminds us, paradoxically, just how unfamiliar they've become. The first baseball glove. The first brush with the local bully. The first best friend. The first glimpse of death and nothingness. Not nasty at all.
I found it in a review of 'what I'm reading now ' -and liked the NYT review
"Earley has had the courage to return to artistic first principles: clarity, balance, ease. Set in Depression-era North Carolina, his year-in-the-life story of a rural boyhood unmarked by parental abuse, erotic turmoil or domestic dysfunction seems strangely brave and new. ''Jim the Boy'' is a novel that does one thing memorably instead of many things forgettably."..."Earley isn't into genre-bending; he tells his coming-of-age story straight, making all the familiar stops in a way that reminds us, paradoxically, just how unfamiliar they've become. The first baseball glove. The first brush with the local bully. The first best friend. The first glimpse of death and nothingness. Not nasty at all.
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cool.
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