Description: Restoring the Burnt Child : A Primer, Paperback by Kloefkorn, William, ISBN 0803218729, ISBN-13 9780803218727, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Negotiating the no man&;s land between ages nine and thirteen, this memoir of a small-town boy&;s life in 1940s Kansas continues the story William Kloefkorn began in his much-loved volume This Death by Drowning. With characteristic humor and in prose as lyrical as his best poetry, Kloefkorn describes the unsentimental education he received at the hands of the denizens of Urie&;s Barber Shop and the Rexall Drugstore and at the knees of the true characters who made up his family. From the &;firefly&; stunt that nearly burns down his home to the distant firestorms of World War II, fire holds an endless range of subtle and surprising lessons for the boy, whose impressions Kloefkorn conveys with the immediacy, naiveté, and poignancy of youth&;and reconsiders with the wisdom and distance of age. By turns charming and resolute, funny and moving, Restoring the Burnt Child powerfully brings to life the lost, unforgettable world of a boy, and a poet, coming of age in midcentury middle America.
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Book Title: Restoring the Burnt Child
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication Year: 2008
Topic: Personal Memoirs, General, Literary, Customs & Traditions
Item Height: 0.6 in
Genre: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 7.2 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: William Kloefkorn
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
