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Summertime
On a drought-stricken Texas farm, young Rick McAlister waits with the farm hands for the rain and, after a shocking act of violence, for a confrontation with an evil neighbor
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First published December 31, 1986
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August 4, 2008
My dad's first novel. This is a coming of age story set in central Texas in the fifties. Beautifully written, and has a little bit of everything.
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The drought seared the land, and the cotton was withering away...Every day it stayed the same: the heat and dust, the men gathered in the shade, waiting for the rain that refused to come. But for Rick McAllister, the youngest child on a Texas farm, the summer of 1956 was a season of violent storms, each one shaking his tender soul...His beautiful sister is leaving, his older brother is in a dangerous mood, and a shocking act of violence is hurtling Ricky toward a confrontation with an evil neighbor - and into a world where goodness and joy are as precious as the rain...In the tradition of T.R. Pearson's A Short History of a Small Place and Olive Ann Burn's Cold Sassy Tree , here is a novel that weaves a powerful spell - right up to its last, stunning page.
Back of book:
The drought seared the land, and the cotton was withering away...Every day it stayed the same: the heat and dust, the men gathered in the shade, waiting for the rain that refused to come. But for Rick McAllister, the youngest child on a Texas farm, the summer of 1956 was a season of violent storms, each one shaking his tender soul...His beautiful sister is leaving, his older brother is in a dangerous mood, and a shocking act of violence is hurtling Ricky toward a confrontation with an evil neighbor - and into a world where goodness and joy are as precious as the rain...In the tradition of T.R. Pearson's A Short History of a Small Place and Olive Ann Burn's Cold Sassy Tree , here is a novel that weaves a powerful spell - right up to its last, stunning page.
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