An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood

ISBN: 0743211995

Author: Carter, Jimmy

Condition: New

?An American classic.? -The New YorkerIn An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country.Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy, offering an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and a strict segregationist who treated black workers with respect and fairness; his strong-willed and well-read mother; and the five other people who shaped his early life, three of whom were black.Carter's clean and eloquent prose evokes a time when the cycles of life were predictable and simple and the rules were heartbreaking and complex. In his singular voice and with a novelist's gift for detail, Jimmy Carter creates a sensitive portrait of an era that shaped the nation and recounts a classic, American story of enduring importance.

• Author: jimmy-carter. | Publisher: Fisicalbook | Pages: 288 | Publication Date: 2002 | Edition: Illustrated | Binding: Library Binding | MSRP: 16 | ISBN13: 9780743211994 | ISBN: 0743211995 | Other ISBN: 9780743217255 | Other ISBN Binding: print | Language: en | Store Location: Biography | "Book cover image may be different than what appears on the actual book."