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Because their riches of birth and ability were far greater than mere material possessions, Lucille taught her children to think of themselves as superior to many people who were better off economically. During much of young McMillan’s first eighteen years, his family sharecr

• Title : Distant Son: An Alabama Boyhood (Voices Along the Trace)
• Author : Norman McMillan
• Rating : 4.85 (304 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-8-23
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 257 Pages
• Asin : 097119131X
• Language : English

Because their riches of birth and ability were far greater than mere material possessions, Lucille taught her children to think of themselves as superior to many people who were better off economically. During much of young McMillan’s first eighteen years, his family sharecropped, living in a series of rough, unpainted houses and struggling to claw out a meager living by truck farming.Despite the deprivation the family faced, they seldom dwelled on their straitened circumstances. It depicts with rich and lively detail a life that was largely fading in the boom years of the 1940s and 1950s, but a world in which many people still found themselves. Meanwhile, Albert, whose family provided the illustrious ancestors held up as models, drank up his meager money, sold off his property, and, as the years passed, withdrew more and more from the world.Both comical and moving, Distant Son tells the story of t

This now stands as my favorite moment in Southern literature.” Pat Conroy, author of The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides. Norman McMillan’s great memoir is in the high tradition of Rick Bragg’s All Over But the Shoutin’ and Janisse Ray’s Ecology of a Cracker Childhood. McMillan had one shining moment which makes his memoir the most Southern I have ever read. When the family mule died, his father hitched Norman and his brother up to the jo harrow and finished plowing the field

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